Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Feb 1999 04:07:16 +0100 (MET) | From | (Guest section DW) | Subject | Re: either kernel or fdisk does not understand Win95 extended partitions. |
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> If it touched partition table on *slave* - it's broken. > Active or not, it's on the second disk ...
Unfortunately things are not so simple. Just today (or yesterday) I finished a little program (available on request) that looks at BIOS disks and at Linux disks and tries to find out which BIOS disks correspond to which Linux ones.
For example, I have machines where the second disk (BIOS 0x81) is /dev/sdb, /dev/sda, /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc (respectively).
Thus, a setup cannot reasonably be expected to guess which disk is the second BIOS disk, and which disk will be booted.
Andries
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