Booting Linux from extended partition
There is a way to boot from a logical partition using lilo...it's one
special case, and I did it at one time. I installed linux on hda5 and told
lilo to look for it on hda4. Worked fine.
Tim
>To boot, as a general rule, your operating system must be on one
>of your hard disk's primary partitions. You're allowed four of these
>and no more, and an extended partition counts as one of them. You
>cannot boot from a logical drive. In principle, you could get around
>this with a boot manager program which fed a doctored master boot
>record image to the operating system, but it sounds like more work
>than it's worth. Give Linux its own partition or two.
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