Re: boot from an extended partition?
I got it to work. My problem was that Debian's defaults for lilo.conf
from the installation where set to boot off the extended partition instead
of the root partition...
Thanks
-Paul
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
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> > Can Linux boot from an extended partition if I use a program such as
> > System Commander?
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> I don't know about System Commander, but I had no problem getting LILO to
> boot to extended/logical partitions. My LILO setup is a bit funky, as I
> boot 4 or 5 different partitions, but the summary of how I boot to a
> logical partition (hda8, or something like that) is this:
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> LILO is installed on the MBR of the disk, and will boot /dev/hda1, hda2,
> hda4, and hdb.
> hda4 is an extended partition containing hda5,6,7, and 8. An installation
> of Linux lives on /dev/hda8. LILO is installed on hda4, and boots hda8.
> I will show you the lilo.confs (there are a couple of 'em) if you want,
> but I don't have access to them now. Basically, the key is to have
> /dev/hda4 (the extended partition) boot /dev/hda8 (the logical). You
> can't enter /dev/hda8 as an option on the LILO that's installed on hda's
> MBR, because (I guess) LILO can't see that partition yet. Sorry the
> details are so sketchy. What you want to do can be done, in any case.
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> noah
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