Some senseless babbling from Jonathan De Boyne Pollard to Mike Ruskai
on 11-16-99  10:13 about fdisk /query...

 LP>> DriveName Partition Vtype FStype Status Start Size
 LP>>
 LP>> 1 0000003f      c:    1     06       2     0  1023
 LP>> 1 001ffe00      d:    1     06       0  1023   511
 LP>> 1 002ffd00      e:    1     06       0  1535   511
 LP>> 1 003ffc00      f:    1     06       0  2047   397
 LP>> 2 0000003f      g:    1     06       2     0  1023
 LP>> 2 001ffe00      h:    1     06       0  1023  1023
 LP>> 2 003ffc00      i:    1     06       0  2047  1023
 LP>> 2 005ffa00      j:    1     06       0  3071   259
 LP>> 2 00681900       :    0     00       0  3331     5
 LP>> **BIOS: 504MB
 
 LP>> Does this answer anything?
 
 MR> [...]
 MR> What it doesn't say is which drives are primary, and which aren't.

 JDBP> Er, Mike ?  See all the "1"s in the Vtype column ? ... 

 JDBP> (-:

Honestly, I didn't :)

 JDBP> The output of PARTLIST, when Linda posts it, will give the raw MBR
 JDBP> contents, which should demonstrate even more clearly how many visible
 JDBP> primary partitions she has.

The problem, it would seem, is more complicated than that.  OS/2 apparently
has no trouble assigning letters to multiple primary partitions on one
drive, but Boot Manager stops the show if it's told to boot a primary
partition, by way of making that partition visible, and all other primary
partitions not visible.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... And if she weighs as much as a duck?

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