[syslinux] [PATCH] isohybrid: user options

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed May 20 02:27:19 PDT 2009


Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:24:55AM +0100, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> <snip>
>> Well, my use case, and the reason for my patch is thus:
>>
>> On the other hand, I have another stick where I don't need to have the
>> partition as number 4, but I'll have two, and I'd rather the Windows
>> system booted from the second partition doesn't see the first (I'm still
>> testing if changing the first to "Hidden ..." works).
> 
> FYI, with the iso partition as hidden, Windows 7 RC no longer gets
> confused about finding its installation partition (partition number 1 is
> a NTFS partition with the install media).
> 

Hidden meaning type 0x1c, as opposed to 0x83?  That might make that a
worthwhile default.

	-hpa

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