On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 01:12:08PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote: [snip] > > DOS (and W95) require to be booted from drive C: (ignoring floppies > again). During booting, at some stage before processing config.sys, it > switches from loading files from the actual boot drive to loading them > from drive C:. If these are not the same, weird things can happen > (processing of config.sys of another partition, or refusing to load > command.com because it has the wrong version number). The way DOS > assigns drive letters is this: > > * All non-DOS partitions are completely ignored. This includes OS/2's > hidden DOS partitions. > > * Each _active_ primary DOS partition on each subsequent drive is > assigned the next drive letter, even if it is not the first primary > DOS partition. If a drive has no active (DOS) partition, its _first_ > primary DOS partition is assigned a drive letter. If no primary DOS > partition exists on the drive, no drive letter is assigned in this > stage. [snip]
It seems that NT probably does the same thing - if you happen to have an OS/2 HPFS partition (id #9), then NT thinks it is an NTFS partition(id #9). If you are unlucky, then this partition will be in such a place that it is assigned drive letter C. NT will then get confused as it can't actually understand what's on C: God, I *love* mount points - and I *loathe*, *hate*, *despise* drive letters :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
