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Date:      Thu, 28 Feb 2002 01:11:25 +0000
From:      Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>
To:        Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
Cc:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com>, Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: getting started with -CURRENT
Message-ID:  <20020228011125.E48231@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <nospam-1014857913.95086@bambi.gbch.net>; from gjb@gbch.net on Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:58:33AM %2B1000
References:  <20020227102056.A21989@sjt-u10.cisco.com> <3C7D25C3.85B66088@herbelot.com> <20020227141328.A65111@blackhelicopters.org> <20020227142331.F22223@sjt-u10.cisco.com> <20020227142613.A65309@blackhelicopters.org> <nospam-1014857913.95086@bambi.gbch.net>

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:58:33AM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> Michael Lucas wrote [top post put down where it belongs]:
> 
> | On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Steve Tremblett wrote:
> | > Thanks for the help - much appreciated.
> | > 
> | > I guess I'm misunderstanding the primary disk partitions and their
> | > types - I seem to recall PCs getting cranky when there are multiple
> | > primary partitions of the same type?  Or is it that WINDOWS gets cranky
> | > when it sees that?
> | 
> | That would probably be Windows.  I'm doing exactly this, without
> | trouble.
> 
> No, there's no problem doing this with Windows (at least with
> Windows-ME) -- I have Win-ME on my laptop (so I can say "it
> works under Windows" when something is broken) with two FreeBSD
> partitions: 4.3-R (which works) and -CURRENT (in which PCMCIA is
> completely broken).  But booting any of the 3 OSes works fine.
> 
> Greg

Not quite the same thing, but IME Windows (at least up to Win2K), *really*
likes to have the first partition table entry for itself, and to live at
the start of the disk.  I had a horrible time getting W2K to install at the
slow end of the disk on this machine -- where it belongs, as I use it
perhaps 5% of the time -- manual editing of the partition table was needed
in the end :-(

I've certainly had machines with multiple, primary Windows partitions
before now, with no obvious problems.

	Scott

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