Submitted 01-May-00 by Pixel:
| Anton Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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| > It's not limited to only Win partitions. I have a Type 12 partition that the
| > installer wouldn't let me put as a lilo boot option. It might have if I hadn't
| > also wanted the Win partition. Is this installer limit on foreign partition
| > types as a whole?
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| ?? i don't quite understand what you mean. could you tell more.
This particular machine is a Compaq Deskpro. In order to configure BIOS
options, I have to be able to boot into a type 12 (Compaq Diagnostics)
partition which resides physically first on the drive, but logically at
/dev/hda3. When I tried to add this partition to the lilo configuration
during install, it kept generating errors (sorry I can't be too specific, it's
been several days) about not being able to find the partition.
These Deskpros are screwy machines, because I have to have the Diagnostics
partition as a lilo option if I put lilo in the MBR. Otherwise lilo intercepts
the F10 keystroke that normally triggers the partition to boot (the BIOS
catches it after the read of the MBR) and boots to whatever is default without
waitiong for options.
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