Windows 2000+ can boot on an extended partition as can
linux, the BSDs, I think OS/2 warp+ can as well. So
you can still only have 4 primary partitions, but you
probably only need one that has a bootloader like GRUB
on it marked active and the OSs installed all on
extended partitions. I've even
Master boot records are limited to four which is where the limit comes
from. It is theoretically possible to have the MBR point to a new disk
location where you could have a boot manager that supports unlimited boot
partitions. But that requires all the booting is in software and outside
the
Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
Dear all,
I was wondering if the 4 primary parition booting
limit still exists. Is it possible to have
Windoze
Linux
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
NetBSD
on the same box in such a way that we can boot into
any of them?
I am particularly interested in the x86 arch with IDE
