Dual boot XP/pro and linux (lindows)

Klaus-Peter Schrage kpschrage
Mon May 17 11:46:04 PDT 2004


Joel Hammer wrote:

> I bought a lindows computer with linux on the first hard drive. I
> uninstalled this hard drive, and installed a new hard drive as the first
> hard drive and installed XP on it. I then put the linux hard drive back as
> the first hard drive and put the XP drive as the third IDE device (IDE2)
> or as a secondary master (/dev/hdc). There is no /dev/hdb drive installed.
> 
> My entry for XP in lilo.conf is as follows:
> other=/dev/hdc
>         label=MS_W<>?_XP
>         map-drive=0x80
>          to=0x81
>         map-drive=0x81
>          to=0x80

Thanks, Joel and Thomas, this somewhat unveils the mysteries of the map 
command in lilo (and its grub equivalent) to me.
Klaus



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