On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:21:43PM +0000, Nigel Stephens wrote:
I also wonder if the fact that my Linux root partition (hda5) is inside
an "extended" partition (see my original report) could that be causing a
problem for the kernel?
No, this is the normal PC partitioning scheme and the root
partition can be on any of the partitions. The "extended"
partition has historical reasons: the original PC partition table
layout allowed only four ("primary") partitions. To be able to
address more than four, the so-called "extended partition" was
invented, which is in principle a normal partition with an
additional sub-partitiontable and sub-partitions ("logical
drives") inside the partition. For the Linux kernel it does
not make a difference whether to use a "primary" partition
or a "logical drive".