On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 19:40 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The best tool I know of for manipulating and resizing
> partitions is GParted. There is a GREAT LiveCD including
> GParted available at gparted.sourceforge.net. The
> System Rescue CD also includes GParted:
>
> .sysresccd.org
>
The default MBR on a hard drive boots THE primary partition
marked active. A boot loader like GRUB, LILO, GAG, or whatever
can boot any partition. IIRC, however, the FreeDOS kernel
won't start correctly from a logical partition.
FWIW, the Linux kernel is perfectly happy booting from a
logical
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 23:43 -0400, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> So i have still not determined wether freedos can boot from a
> logical partition using grub.
(All Primary Partitions)
/dev/hda1 LinuxSwap 364MB
/dev/hda2 Linux ReiserFS 30GB
/dev/hda3 FreeDOS Fat32 1GB
/etc/grub.conf
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In relation to my partition problem on the Pentium 3 Gateway. I
reinstalled linux in rescue mode and the reinstall oof grub recognized
that freedos was there in the logical partition but I still could not get
it to boot - still had the error 12. Since I really did not have
anything critical on the
Still experimenting with freedos
I have access to a pentium III (cheap,used) laptop which had some unused
space on the harddrive.
Originally I had set it up with Ubuntu Linux and with my alternate OS -
Amiga/Amithlon which has the boot files in the linux boot partition but
has its OS on a hardfil
