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[openbeos] Re: Disk problems with installing second system
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 18:13:22 +0200 CEST
"Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > 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.
AFAICT you also cannot boot from an extended partition. I am also not
sure if BeOS can access extended partitions at all.
> > > 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.
I think it is :-P
Adios...
Axel.
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