Package: fai Version: 2.8.4 Severity: wishlist For some reason, FAI does not believe in bootable logical partitions and fails to create such partitions.
I have been booting Debian off /dev/hda5 (the first logical partition in the first extended one) since the days of hamm (1998) on more than a dozen of hosts and never had a serious problem. I think the installer (not FAI) of woody refused to configure LILO correctly for this situation, but a trivial manual intervention fixed the problem. This also covers the case where the disk is shared between two OS'es and one wishes to put the whole Debian into one partition, with the boot loader in the same partition. Thus, bootable logical paritions are supported by both lilo and grub and I suggest FAI should also support them. -- Toomas Tamm e-mail: tt-deb (at) kky.ttu.ee Chair of Inorganic Chemistry voice: INT+372-620-2810 Tallinn University of Technology fax: INT+372-620-2828 Ehitajate tee 5, EE-19086 Tallinn, Estonia http://www.kk.ttu.ee/toomas/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
