Subject: Bug#3761: LILO installation problem

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 96 11:56 PDT

The problem with making the primary partition that contains an extended
partition the boot device is that a boot block for another operating system
might already reside there. Hm. I wonder if the fellow who wrote our MBR
program can make it cope with extended partitions directly? That's a lot
to ask of a 480-byte program.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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From: Manoj Srivastava <[email-masked]>
Date: 17 Jul 1996 03:17:52 -0400

Hi,

	On a related note, what should one do if the root filesystem
 lies on the second hard drive? on my system:
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hdb3              80508   17441    58909     23%   /
/dev/hda1             174156  172120     2036     99%   /dos
/dev/hdb1             226187  154166    60341     72%   /usr
/dev/hda3  **          47181   28784    15961     64%   /usr/local
(/dev/hda3 mounted on /usr/local is the active partition).

	This could happen if the first drive is a dos drive. Maybe the
 postinst should ask for the partition to write to? 

	manoj
	
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 it sounds like astronomy.  It's got technical terms.  It's got
 jargon.  It confuses the public....The astrologer is quite glib,
 confuses the public, uses terms which come from science, come from
 metaphysics, come from a host of fields, but they really mean
 nothing.  The fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least
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 astrologers to prove their case.  They have not proved their
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 for it, there are no observational data for it.  It's been tested and
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From: [email-masked] (Kai Henningsen)
Date: 18 Jul 1996 09:26:00 +0200

>  postinst should ask for the partition to write to?

Note also that people using, say, the OS/2 boot manager can boot from an  
extended partition on any drive the BIOS can access.

What is reasonable if / lives on /dev/sdc13?

(Mine has been on /dev/sdb2 and is now on /dev/sda13. That's where I  
install lilo, too. Obviously, I don't need another mbr.)

MfG Kai