On Sun, 15 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it)
> > /dev/hda5 Logical Linux
> > /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap
> >
> > If I run LILO and tell it to generate a new /etc/lilo.conf and then answer:
> >
> > Install a partition boot record to boot linux from /dev/hda5? yes
> > Install a master boot record on /dev/hada yes
> > Make /dev/hda5 the active partition? yes
> >
> > then LILO will generate the following error message:
> >
> > 5: not a valid partition number (1-4)
>
> If I am not mistaken:
> 1) you can not set a logical partition as the active partition.
> 2) The first four partitions are reserved for primary partitions.
> 3) You can not change the disk partitions without cfdisk and freinds.
I agree with you on those.. except one of the first four partitions can be
an extended partition (contains logical partitions) to have more than four
partition's total...
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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