From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 8 3:38:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA1F157F4 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 03:38:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p13-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.132.6.142]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id TAA08577; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:38:00 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37FDBE61.EA936575@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 18:50:25 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Embt Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk partitions References: <199910052325.QAA01404@chad.anasazi.com> <3.0.3.32.19991007114127.009aeca0@mail.embt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom Embt wrote: > > If ever there was such a requirement, it is no longer applicable. Some > (all?) off the various incantations of Windows need to boot < 1024 cyl > boundary (usually 8 GB), but they are happy in any slice. IIRC, they do > have problems booting to anything other than primary master for IDE. There *is* a limitation. Windows will only boot from a primary partition. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "I always feel generous when I'm in the inner circle of a conspiracy to subvert the world order and, with a small group of allies, just defeated an alien invasion. Maybe I should value myself a little more?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message