Re: Boot.ini question

Folkert Rienstra wrote:

Disks aren't booted by their controllers, they are booted by the
Mainboard BIOS. If some disks can't be booted then that's because the
MoBo bios doesn't allow it. It's not the controller BIOS fault.

Ok... dunno, but maybe not relevant for my point.

Just as a reminder: the whole discussion started when Timothy claimed that
the rdisk number is the position in the "hard drive boot order", as he
calls it.

How would you then calculate the rdisk number out of the "hard drive boot
order" for disks that can't be booted (independently of why exactly that
is)? Do they appear in the "hard drive boot order" even though they can't
be booted? If not, how would one get their rdisk number with Timothy's
method?

Gerhard
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