On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 04:44:59PM -0800, Bryn Hughes wrote:

> On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:00 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> 
> AFAIK grub/lilo cannot find the kernel if it is on a logical or 
> extended partition, they specifically require the kernel to be on a 
> primary regular partition.  On the ix86 platform using DOS disklabels 
[snip]

Not true!  Grub (and AFAIK lilo) can boot a kernel anywhere on the disk
up to the limit of the LBA addressing (~136MB with 28 bits).

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