dual booting

[William Park]

> From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
> 
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:16:30PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>
> > I think (but do not know) that the traditional MBR can only boot from
> > a primary or extended partition's boot record, not a logical
> > partition's boot record.  But Grub and LILO can chainload from any of
> > those.
> 
> Correct, only a primary partition can be booted from by the MBR.
> Debian includes a tool with a better MBR that has the ability to boot
> from any partition using a little menu.  I used to use that a lot.

Hmm... not sure about GRUB, but LILO can install "generic" bootloader
which can boot from logical partition:
    lilo -M /dev/hda ext      # default is "mbr" argument
    lilo -A /dev/hda 11          # sets hda11 active.  you can do this in "fdisk" also.

--William



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