Hi. I have redhat 9 with grub as the bootloader. The second disk contains win95 and so I am using map (hd0,0) (hd1,1) etc. to fool windows into thinking it's on the first partition of first drive. But when I do this and win 95 loads, there is no entry for the cdrom in the device manager. Why?

I also have win95 on the first partition of the first disk. Booting to this win from grub does locate the cdrom.

Can someone enlighten me?

Thank you,

Darryl

Win 9x is inflexible in its boot location; it must be on the primary partition of the first drive (ie, master - primary IDE channel) and that partition must be marked 'active'. Otherwise, it will not operate correctly, because all the setup arrangements are based on that configuration. When you are 'fooling windows into thinking it's on the first partition of the first drive', you are also fooling it into thinking it has no CD-ROM drive. The fact that you can boot from your copy of Win 95 on the first partition of the first drive - and it finds the CD-ROM drive - proves this. Your only option is to find some way of making Grub re-map the CD-ROM drive, as you have done for the second hard drive. Sorry Darryl, I can't make any suggestions about Grub, as I know zilch about it.