From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NWh4X-0006QK-5W for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:10:29 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWh4V-0006Q7-TE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:10:27 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWh4R-0006Pb-5r for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:10:27 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39700 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWh4R-0006PY-0O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:10:23 -0500 Received: from mercav16.na.sas.com ([149.173.6.153]:4592) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWh4P-0008QM-BJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:10:22 -0500 X-TM-IMSS-Message-ID: <418325a300106146@mercav16.na.sas.com> Received: from tempo.in.teragram.com ([172.25.89.16]) by mercav16.na.sas.com ([10.19.9.246]) with ESMTP (TREND IMSS SMTP Service 7.0; TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) id 418325a300106146 ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:10:04 -0500 Received: from vmw0314.na.sas.com ([10.32.13.105] helo=vmw0314 ident=dgomez) by tempo with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NWh47-0001HG-Ka for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:10:03 -0500 From: "Daniel Richard G." To: "'The development of GNU GRUB'" References: <000001ca9756$fae87380$f0b95a80$@com> <4B53B7AE.3020006@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B53B7AE.3020006@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:10:03 -0500 Organization: Teragram Linguistic Technologies (a division of SAS) Message-ID: <000f01ca97e3$58e20be0$0aa623a0$@com> X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AcqX3LnXCPXWRFNETXeO+MSZTnHWjwABIX9A Content-Language: en-us X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1+ Subject: RE: Trouble booting from a large USB hard drive X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:10:28 -0000 Grégoire Sutre wrote: > > > Knowing that Windows would only mount the > > first partition when the drive was plugged in > > Does this only apply to external hard drives? Windows treats removable and fixed drives (as distinguished by what is called the "removable media bit") differently, the difference being that it will mount all the partitions of a fixed disk (presuming they are of a compatible partition type and filesystem), whereas for a removable disk, it will mount only the first one and ignore all the others. I've seen Windows tools out there that can flip the removable-media bit on a USB drive, with the raison d'etre of allowing users to work with multiple partitions on same. (Note: For the purposes of this discussion, Windows "mounting a partition" means "an icon for it appears in My Computer when I plug the disk in") > I've always put Linux as > my first partition on my single hard drive without any > problem (now it's > with XP, but AFAIR also with 98SE before). I mean > first partition both > ``logically'' and ``physically'', e.g. what I have now > is: That's a different scenario, that of Windows "skipping over" partitions that it doesn't know about to get to those that it does. I don't know anything about that---I thought Windows just gave up at the first non-Windows partition it encounters, because that would be such a Windows-y thing for it to do :-] --Daniel