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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!news From: ericg@unixg.ubc.ca (Eric Gisin) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,de.comp.os.os2.setup Subject: Re: Boot managers for W95/DOS/Win311 and OS/2 and FreeBSD/Linux Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 19:37:03 GMT Organization: World Lines: 25 Message-ID: <31810cd0.6948663@news.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <4jv7ia$t5o@fu-berlin.de> <Dq4tCM.1Iu@kalwien.regio.rhein-ruhr.de> <317C0CA4.3FD2@aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: port56.annex2.net.ubc.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95:8533 comp.os.os2.setup.misc:13256 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18064 "David M. Fogarty" <DaveChaos@aol.com> wrote: >I too use the OS/2 boot manager. The worst problem I had was Win95 >setting its own partition active thus bypassing the OS/2 Boot Manager. >This was easily remedied by running fdisk and setting the boot manager >partition active. > I think the latest Linux LILO can now boot from different DOS-OS/2 partitions (in addition to multiple Linux partitions). Is anyone using this feature? >The only thing to look out for as far as partitioning as generally as >possible is whether to choose Primary or Extended for partition types. >Primary partitions generally can not be seen from other Primary >partitions. > >eg: DOS (Or Win95) partition as Primary, OS/2 as primary; You will >not see the DOS partition from OS/2. With DOS as Primary and OS/2 as >extended you can see the dos drive under OS/2. > What exactly are the rules for multiple DOS primary partitions? I always use Linux fdisk for partitioning, and have two primary DOS partitions (first one active). DOS 6-7 and Win95 have no problems with this, I always have C: and D:. Would C: disappear if D: were active? It is a BIOS issue rather than OS? Eric Gisin, ericg@unixg.ubc.ca