From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 9 3: 1: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from colin.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7901C14DF0 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 03:01:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lutz@muc.de) Received: from tavari.muc.de ([193.149.49.22]) by colin.muc.de with SMTP id <140603-3>; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 12:00:54 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tavari.muc.de (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA26044; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 11:31:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ripley.tavari.muc.de(192.168.42.202) via SMTP by smptd, id smtpdn26042; Sat Oct 9 11:31:31 1999 Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 11:31:31 +0200 From: Lutz Albers To: Eric Hedstrom , Tom Embt Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk partitions Message-ID: <3165821097.939468691@ripley.tavari.muc.de> In-Reply-To: <37FE23D7.7B7082DC@peregrine.com> Originator-Info: login-id=lutz; server=mail X-Mailer: Mulberry (Win32) [1.4.4, s/n U-301229] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If memory serves me right, Eric Hedstrom said on 08.10.99, 10:03 -0700: > Tom Embt wrote: >> 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. Are you sure about NT ? If memory serves me right at least the first stages of a NT boot (ntdetect.com, ntldr and boot.ini) must be on primary partition. NT itself can reside on an extended partition. -- Lutz Albers, lutz@muc.de, pgp key available from Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message