I got it to work. My problem was that Debian's defaults for lilo.conf from the installation where set to boot off the extended partition instead of the root partition...
Thanks -Paul On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > > Can Linux boot from an extended partition if I use a program such as > > System Commander? > > I don't know about System Commander, but I had no problem getting LILO to > boot to extended/logical partitions. My LILO setup is a bit funky, as I > boot 4 or 5 different partitions, but the summary of how I boot to a > logical partition (hda8, or something like that) is this: > > LILO is installed on the MBR of the disk, and will boot /dev/hda1, hda2, > hda4, and hdb. > hda4 is an extended partition containing hda5,6,7, and 8. An installation > of Linux lives on /dev/hda8. LILO is installed on hda4, and boots hda8. > I will show you the lilo.confs (there are a couple of 'em) if you want, > but I don't have access to them now. Basically, the key is to have > /dev/hda4 (the extended partition) boot /dev/hda8 (the logical). You > can't enter /dev/hda8 as an option on the LILO that's installed on hda's > MBR, because (I guess) LILO can't see that partition yet. Sorry the > details are so sketchy. What you want to do can be done, in any case. > > noah > > PGP public key available at > http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html > or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.2 > > iQCVAwUBNdnc4IdCcpBjGWoFAQFVoAP7Bgt8ePuIaIsP79Qsmsr6yYBUuEMYKWHu > 5naqpYROp1BjqvnWDDhfyqdpXmIKefR6Fk/CdTIbPM35Iyt2MhM881UShamGFIGS > cp3T6LuMk1v29EjOSfi7jPwePpWze+XjOHenXkYWARg9sv+9h/X8RKAvOs58nXJf > glWbNmHwFkc= > =C9TX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > Unable to check signature, PGP keys could not be found. >
