Re: Boot.ini question

"Rod Speed" wrote:
Timothy Daniels wrote:
Gerhard Fiedler wrote

How would you then calculate the rdisk number out of the
"hard drive boot order" for disks that can't be booted?

"rdisk" is a parameter with meaning only to ntldr in the
selection of hard drives for booting.

Which was introduced to allow the booting of NT
from drives which arent even in the bios boot order
list, before bios even HAD a boot order list at all.

Why would someone want the "rdisk" value for hard drives
that can't be booted,

Plenty of reasons for wanting an rdisk() value
for a drive that isnt even in the bios boot list,
and when there isnt even a bios boot list at all.


Name one. And why would anyone want to use rdisk in
anything but boot.ini where it's placed for ntldr to use and
only ntldr can understand in loading from hard drives?

*TimDaniels*
.

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