On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 20:04 +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote:
> Doug Ledford said: (by the date of Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:30:58 -0400)
>
> > So, what I said is true, the MBR will search on the disk it is being run
> > from for the files it needs: 0x80.
>
> my motherboard allows to pick a boot device if I press F11 during
> boot. Do you mean, that no matter which HDD I will choose it will
> have 0x80 number?
All the motherboard BIOS drive mapping things I've seen will do exactly
that. In order to boot from say drive sda when hda is present, they map
BIOS device 0x80 to sda instead of hda.
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