dual-booting without GRUB or LILO

[James Wilkinson]

Brian Gaynor wrote:
> In all cases the linux partitions are in the extended
> partition at the end of the disk as they are much less picky than
> Windows (Windows wants to boot from a primary partition).

Jeff Vian replied:
> AFAIK so does Linux. I have never tried to use extended partitions for
> /boot so I cannot vouch for it but there was a thread a few days ago
> where the poster was asking why he could not boot after doing an install
> 
> He had put the /boot partition inside the extended partition.
> As soon as he made /boot a primary partition the system booted.

Very odd. I rarely use a separate /boot partition on Linux (the only
reason for doing so is to get early boot stuff where the BIOS can see
it[1], but I've always had /boot on an extended partition and never had
a problem with that[2].

James.

[1] Unless anyone knows better...
[2] Well, not with Linux. BSDs and OpenServer [3] like slicing up
primary partitions...
[3] Hey, this was in 1998, under the old SCO.
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