From: newbie@dylan.camb.inmet.com (Chris Newbold) Subject: LILO and extended partitions Date: 27 Aug 1992 14:33:55 GMT
I grabbed the new alpha version 4 of LILO off tsx the other day. I've been
trying to install it to boot Linux out of an extended _parition_ (i.e.
not an extended _filesystem_).
I have two SCSI drives /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. The first drive is all
Messy-LOSS, Windows, OS/2 and Windows NT. On the second drive, I have
two partitions: a primary 20mb DOS parition, and an 80mb extended parition
with three logical drives for Linux. They map as: 22mb /dev/sdb5 - root,
8mb /dev/sdb6 - swap, and 50mb /dev/sdb7 - usr.
When I ran "lilo -i boot.b /usr/src/0.97-pl1/Image" I got the message
"Could not install boot sector in extended parition 0x815". Why is this
happening? I thought LILO could boot extended paritions... I'm I just
being boneheaded and doing something wrong?