[PLUG] Why create a boot partition?

[Felix Lee]

"Michael C. Robinson" <michael at goose.robinson-west.com>:
> What is difference to the computer bios of a primary partition verses an
> extended partition verses a logical volume?  Does the bios just assume
> to start reading at sector zero or is there more reason than that why
> certain systems have to be installed at the beginning of the drive?
> Why was a limit of four primary partitions imposed?

google for "bios disk"
  http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/over.htm

also, google for "partition table"
  http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_tables.html

also, wikipedia for "partition"
  http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_(IBM_PC)
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