On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 15:59:17 +0200, marabou <not### [at] availablenet> wrote:

>> I think /dev/hda2 is the extended partition which holds the two
>> logical DOS drives.

>you really should get more familar with *nix drives. it does not matter if 
>you boot ntfs, dos, ext2, 3 or (nearly) whatever. lilo is a bootloader, not 
>an os.

I know :) That's exactly what I want to use it for - to boot a
specific partition which I know is bootable because I can boot it from
the BIOS.

>you can n o t give names to your partitions how y o u want.

?!
I don't want that... It's how Linux names them. The logical partition
IIRC come after the extended partitions that hold them. I have a
primary that holds my C:, two more DOS logical drives and a Linux
partition. It's just how they are named.


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