Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 05:33, ajx wrote: > > > Yes, all I did was choose partition, not disk, boot record. (Like > > Graham's setup, if I've understood right). And the acid test is that it > > works, at least for booting once. Why, after booting, it leaves its own > > partition inactive is a mystery. > > That is fairly weird. You can boot into it once, then not again. > Something's definitely fishy there mate.
That's what I thought. > > I'm wondering whether this is possibly connected to your advocating > > installing Windows on its partition 1st then moving it to the 'back' of > > the drive - before installing linux at the front? Or is that just a > > legacy of the 1023 cylinder limit? > > Thanks for the reply. > > John > > Generally, it would be to maintain "the 1023 legacy" but I have run into > issues with "modern" kernels and distros, and have found that by putting > the linux partitions before the 1023 mark (at least the /boot and > whatever other partition you have on your primary hard drive) eliminate > problems with changing other partitions that live on the primary drive - > EXCEPTING Windows - which constantly claims the #1 spot in the partition > table (thanks Microsoft). My linux partition is after the 1023 mark - which may be part of the problem. So what you're saying is that position on the disk and position in the partition table are independent - number 1 in the partition table could be number 4 on the disk? That I didn't know. Of course, I didn't need to know it, but then this list is a rich seam of things one shouldn't need to know - but if one doesn't know them one can't do what one wants to do .. Thanks Stephen John _____________________________________________________________________ Envie de discuter en "live" avec vos amis ? Télécharger MSN Messenger http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/m la 1ère messagerie instantanée de France
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