Re: Boot.ini question

Antoine Leca wrote:

If there aint even a hard drive boot order list, the rdisk() param cant
possibly be the ordinal in the hard drive boot order list because there
isnt one in some bios.

Was my point in the first place :-).

That was yours, and Rod's and mine, while Tim made a different one:

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Timothy Daniels wrote on 1/27:

"Antoine Leca" wrote:
rdisk(N) is the "real" disk number (as assigned by the BIOS - 0x80; and
up to 3 according to MS doc).

You can also think of "rdisk()" as meaning the "relative disk position",
that is, relative to the head of the BIOS's hard drive boot order.
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All the rest developed from not being able to reconcile these two
positions.

(And note, responding to another comment of yours, that Tim did not write
"/I/ can also think of ... relative to the head of /my/ BIOS's hard drive
boot order", he wrote "/You/ can also think of ... /the/ BIOS's ..." --
which generally means "any BIOS's ...". Which is not correct, as this is
apparently only so in his BIOS and perhaps a few unnamed others, and so
it's only him who can think like this, and only as long as he uses his
specific computer.)

Gerhard
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