Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I have used Partition Magic 4.0 to expand and move a Linux partition and > it worked fine. After doing this, I had to boot from a floppy and run > LILO before I could boot Linux from LILO, however. >
I have also had this happen to me. I have contacted PowerQuest about it, demonstrated it to them, and they have acknowledged that it's a bug. I use another boot manager in the MBR (Bootit Direct), so I have Lilo installed in the Linux partition boot sector. I have found that when I use PM 4.0 to resize/move a bootable Linux *logical* drive (inside the extended partition) I almost always have the lilo problem afterwards. When I do a similar operation on a bootable Linux *primary* partition, the Lilo problem doesn't happen. PM 4.0 attempts to do the equivalent of running the lilo command when it works on a partition - but doesn't always get it right. It also makes appropriate changes to /etc/fstab automatically - and so far it looks like it does that right. Tom -- Try Debian GNU/Linux - it's free, it's open source, and it rocks http://www.debian.org
