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Re: fdisk problems
- Subject: Re: fdisk problems
- From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:30:21 -0700
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 09:46:12AM +0530, Vinay BV wrote:
> >
> > This is because ur slave was not active, and dos/windose can only boot
> > from a active partation, I am right ??
> >
> > -Chetan S
> >
>
> You're right. I could'nt make the slave an active partition. Fdisk(dos)
> gave me an error when I tried to do it.
You can do it from the Linux fdisk. But I'm not sure that DOS/WinXX
insist on being the active partition. I know of only one
OS - SCO UnixWare that insists on being the active partition.
I may be wrong though! So experiment and find out for yourself.
-Arun
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