[openbeos] Re: Disk problems with installing second system
From: "Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:12:25 -0300 (BRT)
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > but running lilo gave the error: could not open partition table. (5
> > was the
> > correct partition number. i checked that.)
>
> BeOS only supports primary partitions, no extended/logical ones. There
> was nothing wrong with lilo, I would guess.
> I don't know remember if it's a version issue, but using Linux's fdisk
> has had some issues, maybe it's also related to that.
I am not 100% sure, but I guess you can install BeOS in a extended
partition without problems. You just can't create extended partitions
using DriveSetup.
> > i was able to configure lilo to boot my old BeOS install, but while
> > booting
> > it complained about there not being a bootable BeOS volume.
>
> Because it was obviously not installed on a primary partition.
I don't think this is a problem.
-Bruno
