On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:53:25 +0000, David W Noon wrote: > >Really? Please don't tell this computer, it's been booting from a > >logical partition for more than six years. > > You must have a newer BIOS than I have on my 2004-vintage box, offering > non-standard BIOS facilities. The ISA-standard BIOS only offers > bootstrap from primary partitions.
I have another box at least eight years old, that happily boots from sda5. > Your extended partition begins at sector 124. Any idea what is > occupying sectors 0 - 123 ? No idea, I used cfdisk, which must have decided it was a good idea to leave that area untouched. It doesn't show as free space. -- Neil Bothwick Failure is not an option...it is integrated with every Microsoft product.
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