On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:43:21PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On 12 Jan 2002 at 13:17, USM Bish wrote:
>
> I thought every partition has a bootable record. Be it primary
> or extended.
>
Every PRIMARY partition has a boot record and space for data. An
EXTENDED partition has a boot record, but the data is kept in
the logicals under it. An IDE drive takes only ONE extended par-
tition, but unlimited logicals. Assume your extended partition
is hda4, the data would be written to hda5 (the default logical)
If you make hda6 to hdaN, the boot record would still be of hda4
Suppose you install QNX or freebsd on hda8, the boot record is
going to be written to the boot record of the extended, and not
of hda8 (since logicals under an extended do not have a boot re-
cord). As a consequence any pre-existing bootable record will
be overwritten.
Bish
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