On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> Hi Buddy,
> >Lots of stuff there in u'r mail. Like U said, there is *NO* primary
> >partition in u'r disk for linux - in which case *AFAIK* U will not be able
> >to use LILO to boot to linux. This is the reason why most of us prefer to
>
> Then How I was able to use Lilo earlier on my old HDD (6.4MB) inspite of my
> linux being on Extended Partition ? :-) There was no primary partition for linux.
Are you sure?? what were the other OS?? windows maybe.....
well (a wild guess) maybe the lilo be on the mbr. and windows booting from
it. But I second the argument that lilo can't be installed and bootable on
an extended partition.
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Ajay kumar Dwivedi
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