On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:36:54AM +0530, Robin Chatterjee wrote:
> It is quite possible ...I had been doing this for a year ...now i have
> switched to two primary partitions.
>
> > Can someone please tell us if it is possible to boot from a logical
> > partition by using LILO? I don't think thats possible...
> >
what about this
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 523 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3 24066 4 FAT16 <32M ;; service
/dev/hda2 4 523 4176900 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 4 195 1542208+ 6 FAT16 ;; win$95
/dev/hda6 196 211 128488+ 82 Linux swap ;; sharedswap
/dev/hda7 212 342 1052226 83 Linux ;; Deb/Potato
/dev/hda8 343 523 1453851 83 Linux ;; RedH 6.2
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