Thomas Mueller wrote (in part):
> Under DOS and OS/2, only one primary partition on a hard drive can be
> accessible at one time (same with Windows including NT/2000?), and I
> thought that was an inherent limitation of the hardware until Linux
> showed otherwise.
The partition table in the MBR (and IDE drives, I think) can contain
up to four entries for "primary" partitions. If there are logical
partitions, one of these entries is a "container" partition for the
logical partitions. There is not a problem accessing more than one
primary partition under DOS. I have a 386 with MS-DOS, PTS-DOS and
FreeDOS on separate bootable partitions. Each OS can readily access
all three partitions.
Ken Martwick
