Re: lilo, linux and win95

On Sun, 15 Mar 1998 shaul@rakefet.va.debian.org wrote:

> > 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.

I agree with you on those.. except one of the first four partitions can be
an extended partition (contains logical partitions) to have more than four
partition's total...


                       Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)

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