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.... :/
--Servus, Daniel
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