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
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