Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 11:31:31 +0200 From: Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de> To: Eric Hedstrom <erich@peregrine.com>, Tom Embt <tom@embt.com> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk partitions Message-ID: <3165821097.939468691@ripley.tavari.muc.de> In-Reply-To: <37FE23D7.7B7082DC@peregrine.com>
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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 <http://www.pgp.net>; 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
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