Linux drive and partition mapping

From: Aron Wahl (awahl_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: 29 Feb 2004 10:21:43 -0800

Hi,

I have installed RH9 installed on a system with 2 IDE HD's. Linux is
installed on the second HD second partition. /=>/dev/hdb2. I use
syslinux to boot.

There is no problem booting, but when I look at the partitions and the
mounted filesystems, i see that the second drive has been mapped onto
the first one.
/dev/hdb2=>/dev/hda6
/dev/hdb3(swap)=>/dev/hda7

How is that possible??? Has it something to do with LVM??

Thank you

Aron

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