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Windows uses several sectors in the _partition_ for booting. Windows only uses sector 0 of the Disk (the MBR), and does not use any other sectors. Other boot managers and copy protection software (the stuff that comes with TurboTax this year uses track 0, evil...) For FAT16 filesystems, only the first sector is used. For FAT32, there are 32 s...

Hello all. Here[1] is a branch where chain.c32 can chain-boot a partition on a GPT disk when given the partition index. boot: chain hd1 84 (For example.) - Shao Miller [1] http://git.zytor.com/?p=users/sha0/syslinux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ chain_gpt

This is yet-another reason to _partition_ your disks. Of course hard links do not work accross filesystems. Even thought it is a pain in the neck to do when installing your operating system, think about separating critical system files from non-critical and non-system files from system files. I would say that the following layout is a good...

[Mod: redirected to linux-security --alex] On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Alexander O. Yuriev wrote: >This is yet-another reason to _partition_ your disks. Of course hard links >do not work accross filesystems. Even thought it is a pain in the neck to do >when installing your operating system, think about separating critical >system files from non-critical and non-system files from system files. I >would say that the following...

I am working on a Linux-based boot disk for my project (http://unattended.sourceforge.net/), and I have hit a snag. Under Linux 2.6, the kernel (via HDIO_GETGEO) always reports the C/H/S geometry of an IDE drive as X/16/63. But most BIOSes want to use the geometry Y/255/63. Most partitioning tools (including Parted) will take clues from an existing partition table and adapt to the BIOS values.