[H-GEN] lilo down, I'm bummed

[Frank Brand]

[ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and  ]
[ Unix-related topics.  Please observe the list's charter.           ]
[ Worthwhile understanding: http://www.humbug.org.au/netiquette.html ]

You will probably find others might have some other opinions on it but I am
a bit of a stickler when it comes to partitioning. There are some
circumstances I have found where using extended partitions can cause
problems.

I always use Linux tools to partition for Linux. I usually partition the
drive using parted befor installing. Also I like to use primary partitions
where possible. Although Win-DOS will support 4 primary partitions the
Win-DOS fdisk only actually lets you install 1 primary...everything else
gets dropped into Logical/Extended partitions.

I find that primary partitions are handled better by most partitioning
tools. I have had 2 occasions when it was very difficult to remove extended
partitions from the drive. Jimmy seems to have Linux on the hda6 partition
and I assume he has Win on the primary partition and probably the Linux
setup on the extended partition.

Why not use the primary partitions 2,3 and 4 if possible...obviously if you
want to go past 4 partitions you need extended partitions...primary
partitions are easier to set up than the two step extended/logical process.

On both ocassions when I had problems the disk was a shared Win/Linux disk
with Linux installed, automatically, in the extended partition (I have
mentioned this problem before where the extended disk gets put into the
partition table as starting one cylinder less than the finish cylinder of
the primary partition). Never again.



>Thanks for all the help on this one. My error turned out to be a stupid
>one. Johann pointed it out to me. I had lilo booting to the wrong
>partition. Not sure how I did that but need to be more careful.
>Thanks again for the help.



--
* This is list (humbug) general handled by majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au .
* Postings to this list are only accepted from subscribed addresses of
* lists 'general' or 'general-post'.