Robert Nordier wrote:
Gary T. Corcoran wrote:
Now since the MBR booter "knows" that you don't boot DOS/Windows
from an "extended" partition (type 5), it doesn't offer it as
a boot choice. Now I could probably hack the booter (boot0 ?)
to accept type 5 as a valid choice. But before
[ I'm sending this to the list just in case anyone searches the
email archives for an answer to a similar question. ]
I wrote:
Now since the MBR booter "knows" that you don't boot DOS/Windows
from an "extended" partition (type 5), it doesn't offer it as
a boot choice. Now I could
I have a notebook PC with Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD on it.
I installed the FreeBSD booter into the Master Boot Record (MBR).
Using that, I can boot Windows or FreeBSD. But Linux doesn't
show up as a boot choice, because I installed it into a "dos
extended" partition (slice), to keep linux
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