when using lilo to hide partitions in the past i have relied on the examples i
found online and in man lilo.conf, but now that i wish to alter the id of the
extended partition (so that both os/2 and winxp will both work) i can't find
any confirmation of the appropriate nomenclature.
the examples
bascule wrote:
> when using lilo to hide partitions in the past i have relied on the examples i
> found online and in man lilo.conf, but now that i wish to alter the id of the
> extended partition (so that both os/2 and winxp will both work) i can't find
> any confirmation of the appropriate nome
thanks felix but my winxp will not see the ntfs partition that is within the
extended partition unless the typ is other than 05, specifically it will not
mount it onto it's filesystem and since that partition is the 'documents and
settings' stuff i can hardly do without it :)
if you are sure tha
bascule wrote:
> thanks felix but my winxp will not see the ntfs partition that is within the
> extended partition unless the typ is other than 05, specifically it will not
> mount it onto it's filesystem and since that partition is the 'documents and
> settings' stuff i can hardly do without it
felix
well, thanks to you i revisited my partitioning setup and of course it
transpires that the partition numbers had been altered somewhere along the
way due to me doing two things at once while altering the id, so xp was
booting of the other drive but not mounting the other ntfs volume, i'm u
