Eric Auer composed on 2018-01-22 03:14 (UTC+0100): >>> dual-boot system, and Win98 *has* to be on the first partition.
>> That was never the case for me. e.g. > I agree that most operating systems happily boot from ANY primary > partition (not necessarily the active one), I seem to remember that > DOS and Windows are less happy to boot from LOGICAL partitions? > If you have more specific information, I would be happy to read it. AFAIK, neither MS-DOS nor PC-DOS nor Windows can ever boot from a logical. I was not describing booting from a logical. I was describing use of a single small (as little as ~32MB for 9x) FAT primary partition (that need neither be the first primary nor active) for Windows (NT/9x/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10) to boot M$ from, along with all operating system installations on logicals. Having learned this with 9x, I can't recall ever installing XP anywhere but (logical) E: on any of my own BIOS PCs, (virtually?) all of which for 25 years or so have been and/or are multiboot. I do own a working PC with XP on C:, but I didn't create that installation. W7 (probably Vista, which I never installed anywhere, too) and newer apparently insist on calling the system partition C: even when it is a logical. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
