Re: either kernel or fdisk does not understand Win95 extended partitions.

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Sun, 21 Feb 1999 04:07:16 +0100 (MET)

> If it touched partition table on *slave* - it's broken.
> Active or not, it's on the second disk ...

Unfortunately things are not so simple.
Just today (or yesterday) I finished a little program
(available on request) that looks at BIOS disks and at Linux disks
and tries to find out which BIOS disks correspond to which Linux ones.

For example, I have machines where the second disk (BIOS 0x81)
is /dev/sdb, /dev/sda, /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc (respectively).

Thus, a setup cannot reasonably be expected to guess
which disk is the second BIOS disk, and which disk
will be booted.

Andries

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