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James Hiscock wrote: |
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>You can try using the "map" command to swap the drives around (as far |
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>as the BIOS/Windows is concerned): |
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>title=Windows 2000 |
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>map (hd0) (hd1) |
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>map (hd1) (hd0) |
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>rootnoverify (hd1,0) |
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>chainloader +1 |
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>...would make your BIOS/Win2K to think that /dev/hdb is /dev/hda, and |
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>vice versa. Most versions of Windows that I've messed around with |
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>require being installed to a primary partition on the first hard disk. |
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>This solution works around that limitation. |
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veeery good to know, thanks :) |
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francesco |
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