Re: query

[Phillip Susi]

Generally yes, PC bios will map hd0 to the primary master IDE drive, and 
some newer bioses will allow you to boot from other drives.  This is 
done by changing the mapping so the other drive looks like hd0.  Since 
this mapping is done by the bios, it effects both grub and ntldr alike.

victor sperber wrote:
> Does the Grub drive number for IDE drives mean this?
> HD0 master drive
> HD1 slave drive
>
> or is the Drive number influenced by which drive you're booting from so 
> that if booting from the slave drive
>
> HD0 would be slave
> HD1 would be master?
>
> and if booting from the master it would be:
>
> HD0 master drive
> HD1 slave drive
>
> (Also when using the NTloader is the specification of the disk number 
> affected by which drive you are booting from? I know this doesn't really 
> belong here but it cropped up at the same time when modifying partitions 
> loaded by grub and NTLoadr.)