On 2014-05-03 15:16 (GMT-0700) Linda Walsh composed:
Since day 1 Win7 has required 2 partitions to boot -- one is usually *unmapped/unmounted* and called something like 'System Reserved' (mine reads 100MB long w/31MB used.
THEN you have your main 'C' drive partition. I gave up trying to install linux's loader in front of Win's System Reserved, so don't know if just trying to boot from it will work or not.
Based upon my very limited partition experience with Windows post-XP, I don't believe the above to be entirely accurate in the sense that standing alone it could mislead as to what W7 requires. I've only ever installed such an animal on one system, a (free) Win8beta. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/vizioL05.txt shows the partitioning used. Both XP and 8 booted from sda1, which both called C:. XP's "system" was installed to sda6, which it called D:. W8's (bloated) "system" was installed to sda7. Whether it called sda7 D:, E: or something else I don't remember, and since it's now history I can't check, but it was not C:. DOS (still) is on sda2. Grub Legacy (still) is on sda3. Traditional WinDOS-friendly code is in the MBR, which directs boot via Grub on the "active" sda3 primary, from which Windows could be reached via a chainloader stanza pointing to sda1. In summary, both Windows versions started/initialized/booted from the same primary (C:) partition, while each ran from individual logical partitions, and stored or used nothing on any other primary partition. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org