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Re: Booting win98 from an extended partition


From: Ingo Korb
Subject: Re: Booting win98 from an extended partition
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:37:22 +0100

> I am not sure wheter also OS/2 boot manager uses this way to boot
> operating systems from logical disks, maybe there is other posibility.

It doesn't. It uses a much cleaner "load the boot sector, apply a bit 
of black magic[1] and start it" approach which does not result in 
random partition order.

[1] I think GRUB now understands this kind of black magic, although the 
patch for it looks strange.
Read 'Ya Somewhere... Ingo Korb



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