[syslinux] [PATCH] isohybrid: user options
Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha
strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Wed May 20 02:50:18 PDT 2009
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:27:19AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
Actually, I made a mistake and used 0x1b, but I suppose it doesn't
matter, as Windows just ignores it and Linux doesn't care.
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lfr
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