On Tuesday 25 June 2002 20:59, USM Bish wrote: > Dead right. An IDE HDD can take a max of 3P+1E.
IIRC, linux fdisk can create more than one extended partition.. Of course that would confuse any M$ OS but who cares..;-) > It is not only NT, any M$ OS is extremely posessive about the MBR. Both > LILO and grub can handle this situation, and fire io.sys and other M$ > boot files correctly. In a M$-Linux dual box, my personal preference is > to use boot.ini or loadlin and keep the M$ MBR. This is not because it > is in anyway superior to LILO/ grub, but because of gruntings of many > virus scanners working under M$, when the see an "alien" MBR. Tha'ts the reason I have lilo on /dev/hda2 and made it active partition. Hell with windows.. Linux always works.. even when backing up NTFS partition while upgrade to XP screws it up all.. Shridhar ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber Inc. Don't miss the IM event of the season | Special offer for OSDN members! JabConf 2002, Aug. 20-22, Keystone, CO http://www.jabberconf.com/osdn _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
