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- Path: sparky!uunet!rosie!NeXT.com
- From: sam_s@NeXT.com (Sam Streeper)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Boot Manager and NT incompatibility
- Message-ID: <6131@rosie.NeXT.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 00:01:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.192226.16205@microsoft.com>
- Sender: news@NeXT.COM
- Reply-To: sam_s@NeXT.com
- Lines: 27
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- jvert@microsoft.com (John Vert) writes:
- > The reason that the NT Beta will not install with Boot Manager is NOT
- > because Microsoft hates IBM (...) The reason is (...) the
- > partition that NTLDR gets started from is no longer marked ACTIVE.
- > Instead, the Boot Manager partition is marked ACTIVE.
-
- This strikes me as curious. From Microsoft's own documentation on
- partitioning, the fields are:
-
- peBootable: Specifies whether the partition is bootable. (...)
- peFileSystem: Specifies the type of file system. (...)
-
- These definitions are a little hazy, but historically the bootable field is
- interpreted by the booter as "which partition to boot" and the file system
- field has been used as much for identification of operating systems as file
- systems.
-
- The way just about all other OS's play is that they identify themselves by the
- system id byte rather than assuming than because the OS is running the active
- partition must identify the file system belonging to the OS (a shaky
- assumption).
-
- -sam
-
- --
- Opinions expressed herein are not those of my employer. They're not even
- mine. They're probably wrong besides. How did they get in here, anyway?
-