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Greg White (greg.white@logicorp.ca)
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:21:02 -0700
Geoff Smith <geoffs@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
>I've recently moved my win95/linux harddrive to IDE controller 2 and put
>a new completely-linux drive on IDE 1. Booting both linux partitions
>works fine by just changing all instances of hda for hdc in
>/etc/lilo.conf; however, this did not work for win95. When I try to
>boot it, it just sits there. the dos entry look like this:
>
>other = /dev/hdc1
> label = dos
> table = /dev/hdc
>
>Why doesn't this work? Is win95 confused now that it's on hdc?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Geoff
I'm fairly sure (never tested it myself, because of all the posts I've read on
this topic) that if Win95 is not /dev/hda1 (or at least _on_ /dev/hda) it will
crap bricks.... Anyone, feel free to contradict me on this with hard evidence.
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