On Sep 19, 2005, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Once upon a time, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> said: >> On Sep 19, 2005, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Once upon a time, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> said: >> >> On Sep 18, 2005, Jim Cornette <fct-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > It is my understanding that the /boot partition has to be on a primary >> >> > partition. >> >> >> >> Nope, not true. It works just fine as a logical partition. >> >> > Only if you write GRUB (or some other "smart" boot loader) to the MBR. >> >> Again, not true. It works for me on hda5 and hda6, each a /boot for a >> different installation of Fedora, and each one can chain-load the >> other, so both work just fine. > What is the MBR boot loader? The standard DOS/Windows MBR (on a dual > boot system) will not boot a logical partition. Oh, I do have grub installed in the MBR as well, loading the rest of GRUB out of the extended partitions. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list