The boot sector will lie within the first 1024 cylinder of the hard disk and
linux can boot easily or else booting of linux will fail.
Regards
Sunil
PS ::check out http://www.exocore.com
PS:: There is frequently asked quetion in this url . just go thru that.....
> hi everybody,
>
> i would like to know the best way to assign different partitions sizes in
> linux (apart from swap & / i.e. /apps, /etc, ....). also why is it
necessary
> to assign these partitions? do they improve the performance of linux? &
how?
>
> i have a 20 gb hard disk. do i partition my windows side as 12 gb
(primary)&
> 4 gb (extended)or in short partitions. i.e. 2 gb as primary & the rest as
> 2.5 gb extended logical. if the later option is good then why is it so?
>
> shree
>
>
>
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