On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 05:07:20 +0000, T o n g wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:51:29 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> You only get 4 primary partitions. If you want any Logical partitions, >> you have to have to make one of the primary partitions an Extended >> partition, and put your Logical partitions inside that Extended >> partition. >> >> So, in effect, your three Primary NTFS partitions have used up all the >> primary partitions you can have if you want to use Logical partitions. >> >> As I see it, you have two options: . . . > > Another option is to put your linux partition in the Extended Logical > partitions, then put LILO in MBR to chain boot Windows or your linux. > > I.e., LILO does not have the MS brain-dead limitation to only boot from > primary partitions.
What I've tried and successful was, put the MBR from LILO into the MBR sector on the disk, lilo -S /dev/null -M $MBR ext then mark my linux partition in the Extended Logical partitions as bootable, and put GRUB in its PBR, then chain boot *everything* from there. I.e., you do necessarily boot from LILO, just wipe out the brain-dead MS MBR with it would be fine. PS. for booting Q&As, I found bootland (now reboot.pro) extremely helpful. HTH cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k7ndki$buh$1...@ger.gmane.org
