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Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
I'm pissed off that the W2K disks can't be used as a simple boot disk, as my crutch did. I effectively have no access to the W2K OS or drive partition. Better still, can anyone suggest how to restore the dual boot? Should I use the W2K set-up to fixmbr of a specific hard drive, rather than a default? The BOOT.

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
This is the partition that the BIOS executes the boot sector of. Wrong. The BIOS doesn't execute any boot-sector (but on floppy boots), it's executing MBR and that one is looking for the active partition and executes boot-record code. If a BootManager is in the MBR then this isn't the full truth as well.

Multiple SATA disks, two OSs and booting problem
The default OS/2 MBR boots the partition marked startable (ie partition status byte is 0x80 - though it's probably a bit mask, so if bit 7 is set, that should be enough). Boot Manager only works if it is the partition marked startable (except if BM was installed on a drive other than the first one by LVM,

Win98 2nd partition booting???
Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org <mailto:listmas...@lists.debian.org> Hey, Looks like it can't find the right disks/partitions to boot from. This is where Lilo installs its boot # block. It can be either a partition, or the raw device, in which # case it installs in the MBR, and will overwrite the current

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
David Efflandt effla...@xnet.com comp os linux misc On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:54:14 GMT, TOC <no...@nowhere.com> wrote: is it possible to dual boot linux and windows on the same partition? It depends on the type of partition. For example ZipSlack uses umsdos filesystem that can be stored and launched on a FAT (or I

Vista MBR vs. XP MBR
MarvL Ma...@marvl.com alt certification mcse If you are dual booting, or booting from a FAT partition, it the system partition MUST be in the first two Gigs of the drive. I'm guessing that you enlarged your first, non-system, partition. I have mine set up with 1.95G NTFS, 5M boot, 2.0G NTFS. -- Ma...@marvl.com MCSE

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
If you want the BCD relocated you will have to make the drive first in boot priority and the partition you want an active primary partition on the drive. "Don" <d.burne...@clothes.comcast.net> wrote in message news:e%23i9fpzdIHA.5208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... Ok, I will give it another shot then. I tried it once,

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
Partition type 0x17 is defined as a hidden IFS partition. 0x16 is defined as a hidden 32MB FAT partition. If you give it simply another partition type ID, you may be incorrectly identifying it as some other file system. Yes, the BIOS executes the MBR code, so it only indirectly loads a partition boot record.

ok, i'm fucking pissed. dual boot winnt and linux
Stefan Patric toot...@yahoo.com alt os linux On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:33:48 -0500, tinkering wrote: The partition setup on the subject rig is 1 slackware 2 XP 3 XP 5 vfat data 6 swap 7 suse 8 suse 9 debian X reiserfs data Whenever I boot XP the next boot into linux will have fdisk showing Primary-1 changed from type

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
Win95 when selected from the boot manager works fine. That is normal. But even though I have formatted (format /s) the DOS partition it just won't boot. I get the error 'insert system I use LILO on my linux box and unfortunately all this damn work is to get that DOS partition booting correctly to install NT.

Vista MBR vs. XP MBR
It's now possible to set the extended partition type(s) automatically on a per-partition basis. Which means: If you got Windoze9x and OS/2 installed and LVM changes the extended partition type to 05h (as being standard) and Windoze gets crazy about it, then now it's possible to let AiR-BOOT do the changes everytime

Windows 98se not booting
Hi, I have Vista Business installed on my laptop. I installed it myself and it resideside on a single partion of my laptop. I would like to partition my hard drive so I can dual boot XP. What is the simpilist and safest way to do this? I am willing to purchase a partioning program. What say you folks? thanks.

dual booting and system partition
Raj Kiran Grandhi grajki...@gmail.com linux debian user Huub wrote: I can boot into Rescue mode from DVD. I managed to restore a Fedora machine by booting into Rescue mode from DVD, so I figure Debian can do the same. Or not? Yes you can! If you have a separate /boot partition, then after booting in rescue mode

problem with system partition booting
Any other way, such as booting the target machine, is very bad practice in terms of preserving evidence and not contaminating the RAM with new values (even Second, it is trivially easy to thwart unauthorized booting of the machine. Although more elaborate measures will readily occur to anyone who thinks about

Question about OS/2 and Extended Partition Booting
But the BIOS never does execute any boot-record code on harddrives. Yes, the BIOS executes the MBR code, so it only indirectly loads a partition boot record. Of course, your last sentence is clearly wrong. MBR stands for Master Boot Record. If the MBR code weren't executed, booting from a hard drive wouldn't be

Dual booting a new partition
It's a bad paraphrasing, taken boot-record - master-boot-record. So perhaps you just "forgot" the word "master" ? out of context. The context being that I stated that the startable flag is how the BIOS knows which partition to boot - it's the MBR code that The BIOS actually doesn't know anything about partitions or

Reinstall Windows
I then asked Disk Utility to merge both partitions and put the data back onto the single partition. Boot Camp Assistant was now happy to recreate my Boot Camp partition and everything went well after that. Fair warning to first timers: make your partition large enough the first time - I thought I'd be able to

Vista MBR vs. XP MBR
The boot flag is not important for Linux. My main machine was installed as dual boot for Windows/Linux and I have changed it to Linux only some time ago. The boot flag is still active for the former Windows partition which is only a data partition now. 2. You have to edit /etc/fstab of the hda6 partition.

Best Way to partition for dual boot XP
Fill up all the partition slots on the first drive. Then ask LVM to install Boot Manager. LVM still did that on a system here even with only two slots filled. The complete space on the disk was filled though, so the only room was on the second disk. I guess it can't write where there is no room either,

Why does partition type 83 become Amoeba after using XP?
... on my ThinkPad running W2K (on C:, of course). All my attempts to get informed on this subject months ago resulted in the bonehead fact that W2K will not, won't, refuses to, cannot, is geneticly disinclined to.. EVER!!!.. read steenkin' HPFS partitions. If someone has this working, tell me.. tell me!!! Barbara.