Re: create several partitions between hda1 and hda3

From: Kevin Collins (spamtotrash_at_toomuchfiction.com)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:36:24 GMT

In article <ldo-257382.19495313102004@lust.ihug.co.nz>, Lawrence DčOliveiro
wrote:
> In article <416c6775$3$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net>,
> "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>>In <ldo-041D48.22151103102004@lust.ihug.co.nz>, on 10/03/2004
>> at 10:15 PM, Lawrence D Oliveiro
>><ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> said:
>>
>>>That can't be right. I have a Shuttle here with two Linux distros on
>>>it, residing on sda5 and sda6, both using grub, with no separate
>>>boot partition. So either way it's booting off an extended
>>>partition.

I missed the beginning of the thread, but I don't have any problem booting off
of an extended partition:

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 2434 19551073+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 * 1 32 256977 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 33 64 257008+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 65 115 409626 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 116 625 4096543+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 626 753 1028128+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 754 785 257008+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda11 786 824 313236 83 Linux
/dev/hda12 825 1079 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/hda13 1080 1530 3622626 83 Linux

>>There are several ways that can work.
>>
>> 1. You installed grub in the MBR. I believe that is the default for
>> some distributions.
>
> Of course it's in the MBR. Where else would it go?

The boot loader can be installed on the 1st sector of the boot partition OR the
MBR (the 1st 512 bytes of the boot disk). In my case, its in the MBR...

>> 2. One of those partitions is a primary.
>
> Primary partitions are numbered 1-4.
>
>> 3. You have a primary other than those two, and it has a boot loader
>> on it.
>
> Nope. Those are the only two partitions where I've done OS installs.

Kevin

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