On Tuesday 02 April 2002 17:13, you wrote:
> Ce serai interesant de voir si tu fait une partition �tendue
> (hdb2) puis instaler Peanut sur hdb3.
Je ne sais pas si c'est ce que tu sugg�rais, mais j'ai essay� une
installation sur hdb7 (qui est au del� des 1024 cylindres et de plus sur une
partition �tendue) et l�, LILO s'installe sans probl�me!
Donc LILO marche sur le mbr, sur le boot sector d'une partition logique mais
PAS sur le boot sector d'une partition principale. Bug or feature?? Curieux
de voir si c'est pareil avec SuSE 7.3.
Il serai int�resent de savoir pourquoi, je te join une partie du README des sources de LILO-22.2 qui pourai t'aider.
The LILO boot sector is designed to be usable as a partition boot sector.
(I.e. there is room for the partition table.) Therefore, the LILO boot
sector can be stored at the following locations:
- boot sector of a Linux floppy disk. (/dev/fd0, ...)
- MBR of the first hard disk. (/dev/hda, /dev/sda, ...)
- boot sector of a primary Linux file system partition on the first hard
disk. (/dev/hda1, ...)
- partition boot sector of an extended partition on the first hard disk.
(/dev/hda1, ...)*
* Most FDISK-type programs don't believe in booting from an extended
partition and refuse to activate it. LILO is accompanied by a simple
program (activate) that doesn't have this restriction. Linux fdisk also
supports activating extended partitions.
It _can't_ be stored at any of the following locations:
- boot sector of a non-Linux floppy disk or primary partition.
- a Linux swap partition.
- boot sector of a logical partition in an extended partition.*
- on the second hard disk. (Unless for backup installations, if the
current first disk will be removed or disabled, or if some other boot
loader is used, that is capable of loading boot sectors from other
drives.)
* LILO can be forced to put the boot sector on such a partition by using
the -b option or the BOOT variable. However, only few programs that
operate as master boot records support booting from a logical
partition.
Although LILO tries to detect attempts to put its boot sector at an invalid
location, you should not rely on that.
A+
Martial
Thierry
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