[ale] Lilo problem

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Thu Aug 5 10:58:54 EDT 1999


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

> Chris Ricker <kaboom at gatech.edu> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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.
> 
> Great.  Elighten me.  What is a decent boot loader?  Does LILO count?  What
> else?

My point was just that the boot loader which comes with DOS won't do it.
LILO can, OS/2's Boot Manager can, Solaris/IA32's bizarre boot thingie can,
Partition Magic's boot thing can, etc.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
                                              chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu






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