[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



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