Jim Cornette wrote:
jludwig wrote:
How does toe BIOS know to go to that partition???
The bios will get information from the partition table. For example,
you can set the active partition on hda1,hda2 or hda3 on my setup.
They are primary partitions. The active partition is marked with an *
for the active partition using fdisk (linux version).
You can't boot from hda4 (extended container) or from hda5 (partition
in an extended partition, BIOS is not smart enough to do this.) So you
should be able to boot from any partition that you install grub in, as
long as it is a primary partition.
Why I have an extended partition that is all used up by linux swap is
a bit worthless, but that is the way the installer set it up.
You cannot have more than 4 partitions on a drive. When the 4th
partition is created it makes it an extended and then creates the
logical partition inside, thus hda5
You can set the active partition using the fdisk for windows also. I
believe it uses "A" to denote which is the active partition.
Jim
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2173 17454591 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 2174 2186 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 2187 3583 11221402+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 3584 3648 522112+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 3584 3648 522081 82 Linux swap
AFAIK you can only have one "active" partition on a drive, thus only one
to boot from.
