That's not exactly correct. It will boot only from the first primary
partition on the first hard drive. It's not uncommon for me to partition
my linux stuff first then put windows on. Unless I'm smoking crack and
have forgotton some boot loader lore.
Josh
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On Thu, 24 May 2001, Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote:
> Windows will only boot from the first partition on the primiary hard
> drive. Though with some lilo tricks your can get it to boot off the first
> partition of any harddrive.
>
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