Gusty-Feisty-windows

[Derek Broughton]

Liam Proven wrote:

> On 03/10/2007, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> 
>> You can have as many linux systems as you want without it taking a lot of
>> work.   I've never tried for more than one Windows installation on a
>> machine
>> because of Windows needs to be on the first active partition.   That may
>> have changed but I don't keep up with Windows changes.
> 
> That hasn't been the case since about Windows 2, if then, so not for
> about 20 years. How long have you been out of touch? :¬)

Not my experience.
> 
> MS-DOS and the Windows /boot loader/ expect to be in the MBR and the
> boot sector of the 1st primary partition. It doesn't need to be but
> that's what it expects.
> 
> Windows itself will run from any partition on any drive that the BIOS
> and the bootloader can see. This is true of Win3, Win9x, WinNT/2K/XP.
 
This is certainly true, but to run Windows from anything but the first
partition, I have always had to use the HIDE option in grub to hide earlier
partitions.  Can't say I've tried it since WinME though.
-- 
derek