Re: meaning of "rdisk()" in boot.ini file

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:44f3dqF1tifuU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Timothy Daniels <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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DISCUSSION

The OS always booted from the hard drive having a position in
the hard drive boot order expressed as the n in "rdisk(n)" parameter
of the boot.ini file entry. This correspondence persisted throughout
all all permutations of the hard drive boot order and despite which
IDE controller the HDs were connected to. Whether this is the case in
other less common BIOSes is unknown by this investigator.

Still lying. The Phoenix bios is in fact the least common of the 3 majors.

But since the Phoenix Technologies' BIOSes are used by many large PC
manufacturers,

Bugger all, actually.

it is probably a very common meaning of "rdisk()" among modern PCs
running a Microsoft Windows operating system.

Wrong, as always. And have fun explaining why ALL the documentation
of the ARC path naming convention fails to mention the hard drive boot
order at all when documenting the rdisk() parameter.

There has GOT to be a reason for that.

And here's that wet paper bag for Roddy.


AND its a stupid way to implement a system anyway because the
boot.ini file would have to be changed when the boot order is changed.

ALL the evidence > points to the fact that its a terminal
stupidity that has been perpetrated in the Phoenix bios
and that it doesnt get mentioned just because the phoenix
bios is by far the least commonly used of the big 3.

And another one. Roddy grasping at fibres.

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