[NTLUG:Discuss] Hardware / kernel question

[Bryan J. Smith]

At best, disabling the hardware in the BIOS will merely disable ports 01Fx h.
The second controller will still be 017x h which Linux will still map to hdc.
Again, both NT and Linux do not dynamically change hardware mappings for a reason.
They have fixed device mappings.

This is unlike Windows 95, 98 and ME which use MS-DOS 7 to boot,
and rely on such BIOS-based assignment.
MS-DOS has no concept of a device similar to NT or Linux.

-- 
Bryan J. Smith (currently mobile)
b.j.smith at ieee.org

-----Original Message-----
From:  Kevin Hulse
Date:  04-12-27 6:31
To:  NTLUG Discussion List
Subj:  RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Hardware / kernel question

> The kernel panic is occurring because your LILO/GRUB says load root from
> /dev/hda.
> In GRUB, you can dynamically edit this by hitting "e" and changing
> anything that says hda to hdc.

Perhaps he can disable the other IDE channel completely via the BIOS?
This way his root disk in the current configuration would come up as
hda rather than hdc.

[deletia]


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