On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 09:31:29PM +0530, Kingsly John wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, USM Bish wrote: > > |Your system configuration is not suitable enough for a triple > |boot. You have only one PRIMARY and one huge EXTENDED parti- > |tion on which you made multiple logical partitions. You have > |space for only two boot records ... three OSs cannot fit here > > Nope.... you can have multiple OSes with one primary and all other > extended... > > > personally... I've had Win9x+NT (primary partition) , BeOS (extended) > Linux(extended) and another Linux distro (extended) >
What did you boot through ? A max of three bootable OSs would be posible in your case. You have three partition tables to write to ... one for NT, Win and Linux. So things worked. By all probabi- lities the BeOS was installed on a M$ partition and loaded thru Win, and not on a Type "eb" partition. You cannot do the same thing with one primary and rest extended- logicals. A max of two boot records are available. But when you are loading through NT Loader, all OS's must be bootable primarily through their own boot mechanism for which access has to be through the boot record on the root partition. To write the boot record you need either a primary or an extended partition. Extended-logicals will NOT do, since they don't have a boot record. There is only one boot record for all the logical partitions together (under the mother extended). If three OSs are necessary with NT for access through NT loader he needs three boot records. If the IDE disk can cater for four, why not make them and use them ? Much lesser hassels that way. There are no advantages of having an Extended-Logical over a primary. Bish. -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Stripping the kernel LOST #054 GNU strip removes all symbols from object files. The kernel can also be stripped to reduce size, but NOT advocated. There is no increase in speed ... OTOH, some utilities depend on the presence of kernel symbols to operate (ksymoops, modutils etc) ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
