"funny" ASUS P5A-B-AT motherboard

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Aug 4 11:15:43 PDT 2000


begin  Mitchell Patenaude quotation:
 
> Ouch, that's a logical/virtual partition rather than a physical
> partition isn't it?  That means it's enclosed within another
> "extended" partition, and I don't think you can boot from that.

Sure you can.
http://www.yggdrasil.com/bible/bible-src/lilo/user/node15.html

> I ended up recreating all the partitions as physical, and that did the
> trick.

That would be my preference, in any event -- just on general grounds of 
system simplicity.

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