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Re: Multiple "Visible" Primaries

From Barry Landy <bl10nospam@cam.ac.uk>
Newsgroups comp.os.os2.setup.storage
Subject Re: Multiple "Visible" Primaries
Date 2012-11-28 10:41 +0000
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Peter J. Seymour wrote:

:>On 2012-11-27 18:53, Felix Miata wrote:
:>> On 2012-11-27 16:19 (GMT) ivan composed:
:>> 
:>> > Where the idea of primary partitions having to be hidden originates I
:>> > don't know.  It might come from trying to set up a multi boot system
:>> > booting from a primary partition when each boot partition required the
:>> > same letter therefore you had to hide the one(s) you weren't booting
:>> > from.  This is only applicable to windows systems because OS/2 quite
:>> > happily boots from a logical partition.
:>> 
:>> It's hard for me to imagine applicability only to Windows, as it is
:>> IBM's own Boot Manager that insists on hiding when more than one
:>> supported primary is present on the same HD. Newer boot managers provide
:>> configurability of whether and which to hide.
:>
:>Are you confusing primary partitions with the same drive letter with primary
:>drives in general? Certainly on my machines, multiple primaries are not hidden
:>except when for instance there are two 'C' drives and one of them is booted,
:>then the other 'C' drive is marked hidden. It is hardly an issue. If the two
:>OS's are instead installed on for instance 'C' and 'D' drives, none of the
:>primaries are ever hidden.
:>

and this of course is how things always were in the "old days" (before 
logical partitions).

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Multiple "Visible" Primaries Felix Miata <UgaddaBkidding.due2UCE@dev.nul> - 2012-11-26 15:22 -0500
  Re: Multiple "Visible" Primaries Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2012-11-26 21:30 +0000
    Re: Multiple "Visible" Primaries Felix Miata <UgaddaBkidding.due2UCE@dev.nul> - 2012-11-26 23:16 -0500
      Re: Multiple "Visible" Primaries "ivan" <ivanjt@free.fr> - 2012-11-27 16:19 +0000
        Re: Multiple "Visible" Primaries Felix Miata <UgaddaBkidding.due2UCE@dev.nul> - 2012-11-27 13:53 -0500
          Re: Multiple "Visible" Primaries "Peter J. Seymour" <Newsgroups@pjsey.demon.co.uk> - 2012-11-28 09:51 +0000
            Re: Multiple "Visible" Primaries Barry Landy <bl10nospam@cam.ac.uk> - 2012-11-28 10:41 +0000
            Re: Multiple "Visible" Primaries Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2012-12-16 23:58 +0000
              Re: Multiple "Visible" Primaries "Peter J. Seymour" <Newsgroups@pjsey.demon.co.uk> - 2012-12-17 08:18 +0000
        Re: Multiple "Visible" Primaries Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2012-12-16 23:55 +0000
      Re: Multiple "Visible" Primaries Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2012-12-16 23:53 +0000

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