It's just showing it's old DOS roots. There's no reason to suspect a conspiracy when you can just point to old legacy support. Josh ___SIG___ On Thu, 24 May 2001, Peter Clark wrote: > --- "Andy Zbikowski (Zibby)" <zibby at ringworld.org> wrote: > > Windows will only boot from the first partition on the primiary hard > > drive. Though with some lilo tricks your can get it to boot off the > > first > > partition of any harddrive. > Is there any reason for that, or is it just MicroShaft trying to > remain #1? > I admit, I know next to nothing about how Windows boots. I'm not > sure I want to know. But are you saying that if I were to copy a > Windows image off of a CD onto a partition other than the first, it > wouldn't boot, period? > Hmm. Not very satisfying. > :Peter > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >