From: dharatz@informatik.uni-rostock.de (Dirk Haratz) Subject: Re: Where can I find specs on rebuilding the partition table Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 14:04:34 GMT
alann lopes (lopes@cogsci.ucsd.edu) wrote:
| same behavior when issuing the above command. Why does
| that not work and why is it in the March FAQs if it does
| not work, did LILO changed very recently?
Yes it did.
| OK so I tried to use QuickInst, but although it new that
| Linux was installed on sda13, it failed to allow me to
| install LILO at this partion, saying that /dev/sda13 was
This is right. Look into the full LILO documentation. You may find it
at tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/packages/lilo in postcript and tex.
| Type Size(MBs)
| : BootManager 1
| C: NT Booter FAT 100
| : BootManager unknown 896
| I know that if I had the specs on the MBR I should be able
| to get everything back, so can anyone tell me where I can
| get these specs. The people that wrote LILO must have this
| info around.
Why don't you look into the LILO documentation? Maybe your problem is not
the MBR - maybe it is the BootManager?
| More whining -- Why is SLS/Linux/LILO configured to only
| handle partitions up to sda8 and some of the LILO code
| actually had a stop for any partition > 4 -- WHY? With
| today's reasonable prices on Gigabyte drives, it is not
| unreasonable (IMHO) that a system may have more than 8
| partitions and certainly more than 4.
This is not a limit from LILO I think. There is only space for 4 entries
in the partition table of the Master Boot Record. All additional partitions
are declared via 'extended partitions'. You should complain MicroSoft for
this! If you void sanity checks you may get problems as you did. Look for
the full LILO documentation (see above)! Do nothing, if you don't know
WHAT you're doing!
SLS is not perfect. But it helps a lot of people with installing LINUX.
Untill now there was probably no demand for more then 8 devices...
You may buy a commercial Unix with support! Think what you paid for LINUX.
Dirk.