Re: lilo, linux and win95

[shaul@rakefet.va.debian.org]

> dev/hda1  Boot Primary Dos FAT16  (has Win95 installed on it) 
> /dev/hda5       Logical Linux 
> /dev/hda6       Logical Linux Swap 
>  
> If I run LILO and tell it to generate a new /etc/lilo.conf and then answer: 
> 
> Install a partition boot record to boot linux from /dev/hda5?    yes 
> Install a master boot record on /dev/hada                        yes 
> Make /dev/hda5 the active partition?                             yes 
>  
> then LILO will generate the following error message: 
>  
> 5: not a valid partition number (1-4) 

If I am not mistaken:
1) you can not set a logical partition as the active partition. 
2) The first four partitions are reserved for primary partitions.
3) You can not change the disk partitions without cfdisk and freinds.


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