From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 8 10: 6:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gluttony.peregrine.com (nat45.peregrine.com [204.33.95.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4571D14BD2 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:06:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erich@peregrine.com) Received: from peregrine.com (gluttony.peregrine.com [172.18.2.42]) by gluttony.peregrine.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA03004; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:03:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erich@peregrine.com) Message-ID: <37FE23D7.7B7082DC@peregrine.com> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 10:03:19 -0700 From: Eric Hedstrom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Embt Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk partitions References: <199910052325.QAA01404@chad.anasazi.com> <3.0.3.32.19991007114127.009aeca0@mail.embt.com> <3.0.3.32.19991008125733.00aba304@mail.embt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom Embt wrote: > > 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 If ever there was such a requirement, it is no longer applicable.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. Linux, os/2, and windows NT will boot off extended partitions, for what it's worth. Eric Hedstrom erich@peregrine.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message