[Tfug] Partition Second Drive

[Stephen Hooper]

On 10/25/06, Earl <earljviolet at juno.com> wrote:
> As I remember it, and it's been a while, it didn't make any difference
> if the partitions were primary. Linux found everything and booted to
> it from Grub in the MBR. I'm sure they were logical partitions as I
> partitioned with the Win98 installer which supports only one primary
> partition. FreeBSD wanted a primary partition though.
>

Yes, you are right.  Hence the term MBR (Master boot record).  When a
PC gets power it turns on the BIOS, reads the first sector of the
harddrive, and loads code from there.  That code then loads the
kernel, the kernel loads ...

In other words, if that first sector has a piece of code on it that
says make the user buzz binary into the microphone to enter the
kernel, the computer would do that.

The reason for only being able to have four primary partitions also
lives in the MBR... it just is a long winded conversation, and is
better explained by Googling.