Re: El-Torito and HD partitions

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From: Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\) (sbrcin_at_ptt.yu)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:24:19 +0200

Konstantin,

> > Even if you remove all entries including C:. It should work since during the boot C: and other letters will be autoassigned.
> I never tried this. But I guess it would only work if you don't have a HDD in the target device when you boot from El-Torito CD,
> right?
> Otherwise, HDD (active partition) will probably take precedence and would be assigned with C:\.

I have not tried it either, but. To higher level drivers el-torito and HDD are same thing, they are both handled trough disk.sys
driver.
ntldr pass along with ARC names disk id and MBR CRC. Then kernel match this signature with same disk signature calculated trough
disk.sys driver.

>From that point forward (this is time before volume letters are assigned) OS knows what partition belong to the OS itself.
So OS partition should take precedence to all other partitions in volume letter assignment algorithm.

This mean that it should be C:, right?

Best regards,
Slobodan

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