From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:37:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:36:53 -0500 Received: from raven.toyota.com ([63.87.74.200]:30478 "EHLO raven.toyota.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:36:40 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6DCF36.CF93E926@toyota.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:36:38 -0800 From: J Sloan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-pre8-ll i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Venner CC: Linux kernel Subject: Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release) (win98 not honoring partitioning) In-Reply-To: <200101231813.KAA24039@echo.vennerable.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jason Venner wrote: > Windows 98 and possibly followons doesn't quite honor 'b' type > partitions in the extended area of the disk, particularily if you are > past the 8gig boundary and the partitions in question are over 2gig. > The above numbers are NOT hard boundaries, I have only seen this on 2 > computers and those numbers are approximate. This should be an FAQ - running windows on a system where you have a Linux partition is dangerous, and you run the risk of losing all your data. Any Linux system that contains important data should NOT dual boot with windows. The voice of experience talking... jjs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/