Re: LILO other=/dev/hda6 (boot logical partition)

[Peter Bartosch <peter@bartosch.net>]

Hi!


> On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:28 pm, Michel Loos wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > As far as I know Windows can only boot from a primary partition. Since
> > you have more then 4 partitions some must be secondary partition: you
> > won t be able to boot windows from them.
> > I am not even sure that you can toggle the bootable flag on a secondary
> > partition?
> >
> 
> this is true. any windows partition has to be within the first four 
> partitions.
> 

not completely: windows NT and derivates  (2000 XP) could resist on a
extended partition - in a logical drive - but they need a primary for
the ntloader (NTLDR)



:wq - until next mail B-), l8r

Peter
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