Re: "LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

[Howard Mann <howardm@xmission.com>]

lorenzo.zampese@notes.electrolux.it wrote:
> 
> LILO can only boot Opertive Systems located in primary partitions
> (max 4) and located in the first hard drive that usually is "/dev/hda ".
> 
> Bye bye.


This is not correct as stated.

Here is an informative item :

http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/12/166/

I quote a relevant section :

If the MBR was created by a boot manager which can start operating
systems from an extended partition (a partition which has been divided
into logical drives) or from a logical drive, it may make sense to
install Lilo in the boot sector of an extended partition or a logical
drive. Lilo itself is such a boot manager - an MBR Lilo has no
problems with starting another Lilo in the boot sector of a logical
drive. 

Cheers,


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