-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2012-10-29 16:09, Dennis Gallien wrote:
On Mon, Oct 29 11:59:31 AM Carlos E. R. wrote:
And the Windows boot manager can handle logical partitions now, too (actually, since Vista). It still uses the DOS-based MBR code looking for a primary partition where its boot database must reside, but the OS/boot manager (the equiv to grub's stage2) can be on another/any partition. IMO the downside is MS very arcane and unfriendly setup/config tools, which is why I used Neosmart's free EasyBCD. I don't do this for my own machines, but I do recommend it for users for whom Windows is their primary OS.
Yes, that's my case too. 2008 in a logical partition, Linux in another... and had to use third party easybcd.
Weird or unfriendly partition setups are not due to anything in Windows in particular, these are decisions made by the hardware oem. And taking all 4 primaries is one of the worst examples.
Absolutely. Soon it will be a thing of the past, with GPT and UEFI, though. But meanwhile it will be a suffering till those two things work nicely. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlCOwlYACgkQja8UbcUWM1wx7wD/VRhVZ4T5BBBQFoO7Cywte2HT 9MkxEdXA2ONezI3/70kA+QHdBWq9gP+Jpc/OX9Zg2hc23uTVF/uFkZvZlK9YrCRH =H3tx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org