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From: "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycor@home.com>
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[ I'm sending this to the list just in case anyone searches the
  email archives for an answer to a similar question. ]

I wrote:
 
> > Now since the MBR booter "knows" that you don't boot DOS/Windows
> > from an "extended" partition (type 5), it doesn't offer it as
> > a boot choice.  Now I could probably hack the booter (boot0 ?)
> > to accept type 5 as a valid choice.  But before I risk losing
> > my whole (work) disk by messing with the MBR :), does anyone know if
> > I do this, and install LILO (the linux loader) into my "extended"
> > partition, will the MBR booter find the LILO booter to really
> > be able to boot Linux?  Or will the "extended dos" partition
> > still confuse the MBR booter - that is, not find LILO where it
> > expects it?

Robert Nordier wrote: 
> Unfortunately any hack based around allowing selection of type 5
> partitions won't work.  There's really no simple fix to get boot0
> booting stuff from within extended partitions.

I found the latest version of the Linux loader (LILO), version 21.5.1,
and installed it.  Using the relatively-new "lba32" option for
addressing large disks, I'm able to boot Windows/Linux/FreeBSD off
my 12GB disk.

Gary


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