Re: cannot hide ntfs partition

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:32:22PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> 
> hide and map don't work for kernels using direct I/O instead of BIOS calls
> to access hard disks. It might be that win2k is on of such.

I think it _is_ sensitive to the partition type, though, so you can try
to change it to something unknown to NT (such as 0x39 for Plan9, etc.).
-- 
Didi

> 
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:17:57AM +0200, Heidenreich, Andreas wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > i am using grub for multi-boot two windows 2000 ntfs partition and one 
> > linux partition.
> > 
> > first primary               ntfs    w2k
> > second primary              ntfs    w2k
> > third primary               fat32   share for w2k and linux
> > first extended              linux swap
> > second extended     linux
> > 
> > 
> > I tried hide second primary partition using hide (hd0,1) / root (hd0,0 ) / 
> > makeactive / chainloader +1
> > W2k always show the second primary partition as drive d:
> > 
> > Any idea ?
> > 
> > Andreas
> > 
> > 
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> -- 
> Robert Millan
> 
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