[5926] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Error in "Install Bootloader" step
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Weible)
Sun Nov 24 23:18:19 1996
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:03:29 -0700 (MST)
From: Todd Weible <toddw@cyberhighway.net>
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On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Jason Kau wrote:
> > Forgive me for not keeping up, but isn't there a problem with putting the
> > linux root on an extended partition. I thought I remember seeing a
> > warning somewhere about that.
> > RedHat??????
> >
> > I know in my RedHat book for the Alpha it definitely tells you not to do
> > that.
>
> Maybe there is such a problem. But LILO is able to boot an extended
> partition. LILO is installed on the MBR of my first hd, first partition.
> Mabye LILO just bitches if you have the linux root on an extended
> partition. If that's the case, then it's probably an outdated LILO.
> I've run a linux server on another computer with /dev/sdc9! as the root
> partition. And if I remember correctly, linux fdisk bitched about being
> unable to create the sdc9 extended partition. So I used OS/2's fdisk to
> create it. LILO and linux's fdisk are pretty flexible but dumb at times.
I have lilo installed on the super block of an extended partition which is
a logical root partition without any problems.
Todd Weible
toddw@cyberhighway.net
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