On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:58:33AM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> Michael Lucas wrote [top post put down where it belongs]:
>
> | On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Steve Tremblett wrote:
> | > Thanks for the help - much appreciated.
> | >
> | > I guess I'm misunderstanding the primary disk partitions and their
> | > types - I seem to recall PCs getting cranky when there are multiple
> | > primary partitions of the same type? Or is it that WINDOWS gets cranky
> | > when it sees that?
> |
> | That would probably be Windows. I'm doing exactly this, without
> | trouble.
>
> No, there's no problem doing this with Windows (at least with
> Windows-ME) -- I have Win-ME on my laptop (so I can say "it
> works under Windows" when something is broken) with two FreeBSD
> partitions: 4.3-R (which works) and -CURRENT (in which PCMCIA is
> completely broken). But booting any of the 3 OSes works fine.
>
> Greg
Not quite the same thing, but IME Windows (at least up to Win2K), *really*
likes to have the first partition table entry for itself, and to live at
the start of the disk. I had a horrible time getting W2K to install at the
slow end of the disk on this machine -- where it belongs, as I use it
perhaps 5% of the time -- manual editing of the partition table was needed
in the end :-(
I've certainly had machines with multiple, primary Windows partitions
before now, with no obvious problems.
Scott
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