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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (3495)	11/13/1998 10:29:00 AM
From: Spots	of 14778

>> I don't know what NT uses for the basis of drive mapping..boot sequence as reported by the mobo bios or primary/slave drive position. The NT loader is loaded by the bios, which is according to the boot sequence negotiated between the bios and the MB. Usually the first active primary partition on the master disk of the primary controller (subject to the MB and bios capabilities to alter this sequence). The point is, it's the same for all OSs. In this respect, boot monitors such as OS2 boot monitor should be thought of as OSs. Once the OS (or boot monitor) boots, it can determine for itself where the actual OS boots from. In NT's case, the drive mapping is applied to get at the NT system partition. The drive mapping is kept in the registry. The net of this is, for NT you "boot" nt loader (ntldr) without the drive mapping, but the mapping is applied early in NT's OS-specific booting process. It is NOT a good idea to map the partition with NT on it to a letter different from the one the bios would assign. Spots

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