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