> I have had no problem putting linux in primary partitions as long as the > Windows partition comes first, and LILO worked fine. Used to be a little > problem with 1024 cylinders limit, but lba32 and modern BIOSes took care > of that.
I'm speaking form experiance, LILO couldn't convince windows 98 to boot on my laptop when I had 2 primary linux partitions after it. (I countered by deleting windows, haven't missed it.) Now with just the 2 linux partitions the 1st one on the hard drive is /dev/hda3 and the 2nd (swap) is /dev/hda2. This strikes me as odd.....
