Em 20-05-2010 01:28, jasse...@itelefonica.com.br escreveu: > Liam Proven<lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Don't try to create 3 primary partitions - in DOS >> terms, that is an illegal layout. > > Interestingly, illegal in MSDOS and PCDOS, but > both FreeDOS and DRDOS accept this layout (I tested). > Anyway, shouldn't FDISK make the right layout > when requested to create multiple partitions?
No it has never been ilegal, and it allways worked just fine. I use these since forever... what happend is that most tools did not have a way of making them, but if you know how to make them it allways worked since MSDOS-3. The rules of letter attibuting are very strange: 1) the first (sometives the active) partition of each drive 2) all extended partitions from each drive at a time. There were issues as to sequences in recurrent extended partitions. 3) all remaining primary partitions of each drive. There is one restriction: most RD-DOS versions can only boot from the first partition, which should of course be primary and active. This is just a bug. Alain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
