From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 8 9:58: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.gfit.net (ns.gfit.net [209.41.124.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15D7155F0 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:57:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Received: from paranor.embt.net (timembt.iinc.com [206.67.169.229]) by mercury.gfit.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA01991; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 12:01:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19991008125733.00aba304@mail.embt.com> X-Sender: tembt@mail.embt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 12:57:33 -0400 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" From: Tom Embt Subject: Re: disk partitions Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <37FDBE61.EA936575@newsguy.com> References: <199910052325.QAA01404@chad.anasazi.com> <3.0.3.32.19991007114127.009aeca0@mail.embt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:50 PM 10/8/99 +0900, you wrote: >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 If ever there was such a requirement, it is no longer applicable.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. I never said otherwise[1], but you are correct. ..something that I've stopped thinking of as a limitation bur rather a M$ fact of life :( I've noticed the BSL documentation claims to be able to boot from extended partitions if the OS supports it. Does anyone know if this means Windows can indeed be tricked into doing this? If not, I must wonder what OS's _do_ support such a thing. I don't have the $$ to get a full version of it to play with. note 1: Actually I guess it depends on one's exact interpretation of my words. A more correct statement might have been: "The windows boot partition can be any of the four slices, and that slice may be in any location on the disk excepting BIOS limitations (8 GB limit)." My thinking is that booting from an extended partition (which Windows can't do anyway) does not constitute booting from a slice, but instead from a small subset ("logical drive") of a slice, and therefore that slice cannot be defined as _the_ Windows boot slice. However you look at it, it's just nitpicking as it seems clear that both you and I know what we're talking about. Oh bother, I've written too much. And it seems this isn't really applicable to -stable anyway. Darn. Tom Embt tom@embt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message