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| From | Barry Landy <bl10nospam@cam.ac.uk> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.os2.setup.storage |
| Subject | Re: Multiple "Visible" Primaries |
| Date | 2012-11-28 10:41 +0000 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <alpine.WNT.2.01.1211281040400.1896@barry67> (permalink) |
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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). -- Barry Landy Email: Remove nospam in from address 192, Gilbert Road, Cambridge CB4 3PB
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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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