[ale] Lilo problem

[hirsch at mathcs.emory.edu]

Wandered Inn <esoteric at denali.atlnet.com> wrote:
> Ray Prock wrote:
> > 
> > I *think* a dos partition has to be hda1 in order to be bootable..  I am
> > remembering this from a similar experience in 1994, so my info may be out
> > of date.
> 
> I assume you're saying that it must be the first partition.  This is not
> true as, at one time I had two bootable windows partitions on the same
> drive.

My belief is that windoze need not be on the first partition, but it does need
to be in a primary partition.  It can't boot from an extended or logical
partition.  So you need move it to /dev/hda[123]

--Michael