Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 02:35:39 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: gmarco@giovannelli.it (Gianmarco Giovannelli) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is possible that our bootblock ... Message-ID: <199907180035.CAA13086@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <37910EDA.C168A103@giovannelli.it> from Gianmarco Giovannelli at "Jul 18, 1999 01:16:42 am"
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> ... that is installed by boot0cfg is not able to boot Linux partition,
> even if they are corrected identified ?
At least RedHat has taken to installing Linux in extended DOS partitions
by default. (I've no idea about other distributions.) Unless you're
going to rely on LILO or some other non-standard boot manager, you don't
want to do this for two reasons:
o Linux has no business being in an extended DOS partition in the
first place.
o Only primary partitions are startable (bootable).
However, you can override this and ensure that a primary partition is
used. If that is done, boot0 boots RH 5.2 fine.
> It works only with Linux partition installed by Debian (2.1)... All
> the other (Redhat 5.2, 6.0 ; Suse 6.1, turbolinux, Mandrake, Slackware
> etc etc ) fails to boot and appears the prompt F? ... everything else
> (FreeBSD or windows) boot correctly...
If you are getting a F? prompt, you're using BootEasy not boot0.
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Robert Nordier
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