Re: Boot.ini question

Timothy Daniels wrote:

"Gerhard Fiedler" wrote:
1- You claimed that the rdisk number is related to the boot order.

No, I did not. Read again. You will see that I referred to
"hard drive boot order".

You didn't read my message at all, or if you did, you didn't get it. I
wrote "boot order (the term as used by you)", which should tell you what
you need to know.

You can read my message again and (mentally) substitute "boot order" with
"hard drive boot order", because that's obviously what I was writing about.
We didn't talk about CD-ROMs, did we?

If you want to boot from devices other than hard drives, you're on your
own in configuring your boot.ini file.

I did of course /not/ talk about booting from anything but hard drives --
which anybody (or maybe not) could find out by reading my message.


Fact is that there are disks with perfectly valid rdisk numbers in many
systems that can't be booted by their controllers -- which, according to
you, would mean that they don't have an rdisk number.

Gerhard
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