Re: cannot hide ntfs partition

[Robert Millan]

hide and map don't work for kernels using direct I/O instead of BIOS calls
to access hard disks. It might be that win2k is on of such.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:17:57AM +0200, Heidenreich, Andreas wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i am using grub for multi-boot two windows 2000 ntfs partition and one linux 
> partition.
> 
> first primary                 ntfs    w2k
> second primary                ntfs    w2k
> third primary         fat32   share for w2k and linux
> first extended                linux swap
> second extended       linux
> 
> 
> I tried hide second primary partition using hide (hd0,1) / root (hd0,0 ) / 
> makeactive / chainloader +1
> W2k always show the second primary partition as drive d:
> 
> Any idea ?
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 
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