[openbeos] Re: Disk problems with installing second system
- From: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 12:28:22 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Axel [iso-8859-1] D�rfler wrote:
> "Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Axel D�rfler 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.
It can, but not always. In particular, some versions of linux fdisk
create extended partitions that BeOS can't access. Mandrake 8.2, iirc,
includes this version, but Debian unstable does not.
Adam
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