Jeff Vian wrote: > > Test it before making them all that way. IIRC there has been some > problems with trying to boot Linux when the /boot partition is not a > primary partition. > > I have never tried putting /boot in an extended partition myself, but > there has been some traffic here about it and as I recall, the consensus > was "you can't do that". > It is a BIOS limit on some systems that you need at least one primary partition, and it has to be marked as bootable. It does not need to be the partition with /boot. It is just that some BIOS's require one. If you have this, then /boot can be on an extended partition, as long as it is on the part of the drive that the BIOS can access. If your BIOS can access all of the drive, then this is no problem. For that matter, you usually do not need a /boot partition in this case. The /boot directory can be part of the / partition. There are cases where you would still want a /boot partition - especially if you are booting more then one Linux install on the same system. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
