[ale] Lilo problem

[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 hirsch at mathcs.emory.edu wrote:

> Wandered Inn <esoteric at denali.atlnet.com> wrote:
> > Ray Prock wrote:
> > > 
> > > I *think* a dos partition has to be hda1 in order to be bootable..  I am
> > > remembering this from a similar experience in 1994, so my info may be out
> > > of date.
> > 
> > I assume you're saying that it must be the first partition.  This is not
> > true as, at one time I had two bootable windows partitions on the same
> > drive.
> 
> My belief is that windoze need not be on the first partition, but it does need
> to be in a primary partition.  It can't boot from an extended or logical
> partition.  So you need move it to /dev/hda[123]

Nope, as long as you're using a decent boot loader.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
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