[Ubuntu-be] C D E ... Microsoft partitions

[Jan Claeys]

Op vrijdag 27-04-2007 om 10:20 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Paul
Cobbaut:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
> > That's wrong: by default the boot partition is always C:, even if it
> > would be, say, '/dev/sdg' in linux, other disks are named using a scheme
> > that's often very confusing and might even change.
> > 
> Sorry to go off topic on this list. You are confusing Windows
> NT/200x/XP boot and system partition.
> 
> The system partition (ntldr, boot.ini, ntdetect.com) must be
> the active primary partition (*).

As 'ntldr' is de NT bootloader, this is clearly the boot partition...

> The boot partition (with the winnt or windows folder) can be anything
> else (but is usually the same in a single-boot), even a dynamic
> volume. 

This partition contains the (operating) system, so I would call it the
system partition...


-- 
Jan Claeys