On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:13:46 PST stephen bond <sten...@go.com> wrote:
> it makes sense, but I don't find it appealing. I was not trying to > save space by deleting sda1, just wanted to have 1 primary partition > fewer so i can create an extra . > > and I think an extended partition will not be bootable. so both osol > and XP need to stay as primary ?? > > I was hoping Bart Smaalders would say sth here. Perhaps Bart will chime in, but in the meantime I thought I'd follow up. Generally grub can point to any partition, whether it's primary or extended, though I believe it puts the appropriate pointer in the MBR. When given a choice, if you have a grub that you want to continue to use, you'd want to choose to have any new install put grub on the same partition as / (root). And looking in gparted on my pc, it shows /dev/sda6 has the boot flag and it's (obviously) an extended partition. One thing you might want to have handy is a copy of Super Grub Disk (http://www.supergrubdisk.org/) just in case. It's saved me a couple of times in the last year or so. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
