Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:52:25 +0100 (CET) | From | Daniel.Egger@suse ... | Subject | Re: [OT] util-linux-2.10g and Windows 2000 |
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On 22 Feb, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> It is rumoured that Windows 2000 does not accept partition > tables that are not ordered according to disk order. > (DOS / Win95 / Win98 have no problems, and neither has Linux) > If this is true then fdisk must become somewhat stricter. > The present version has an expert command f that does a sort. > [But, let me repeat, nobody tried this. However, it compiles.]
> If anyone happens to have a Windows 2000 system nearby, > I would be interested in hearing about what it thinks > about unsorted (or otherwise less usual) partition tables, > both during an install and during normal operation.
Well, I shot up W2K. I do not know however whether adding the partitions did this or some LILO magic. Should reordering help to let boot again? Not that I wanted to.... :/
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Servus, Daniel
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