[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:
> hda5 (or sda5) and above are logical partitions. Logical partitions
> cannot be used to store the lilo boot sector.
I don't think so. My PC at work, using IBM's BootManager (available
in OS/2 and Partition Magic) has:
----- lilo.conf -----
boot=/dev/hda6
root=/dev/hda6
...
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The normal MBR probably can't load this though.
> For a reason I've not determined, Linux fdisk may allow logical
> partitions to be created and used without first creating an extended
> partition.
I don't think it's possible to put a logical partition on a disk
without it being in an extended partiton. fdisk might let you create
the logical partition without explicitly creating the extended
partition, but it has to do it anyway.
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