Is it Possible to boot from an extended partitoin??

concoran · 10-02-2002, 11:04 PM

If you have no primary partitions, and have only a logical partition
in extended partition (i.e /dev/hda5), is it possible to boot from it?
(of course, assuming it lies within 1024 cylinder limit).

I plan to make that partition active, and install LILO in there.

Alan Lakin · 10-03-2002, 08:05 AM

I am no expert but I recall reading that lilo can now do just what you're asking. Older versions could not.

Have you also considered using GRUB instead of lilo?

jglen490 · 10-03-2002, 08:09 AM

Booting from an extended partition is not a problem and the more recent versions of Lilo are not bound by the old 1024 cylinder limit.

nxny · 10-03-2002, 03:05 PM

You can boot lilo from any partition you care to. The following URL will be of great help if you want to understand what lilo does.

http://www.linux-sxs.org/liloexpl1.html