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Re: trouble with IDE > 1024 Cyl



On Thu, 22 Jun 1995, Paolo Supino wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 1995, Shlomo Hasson wrote:
> > Well,
> > You can have the 2 dos partitions as primary ones, and set an extended partition
> > aside for the linux. The linux will need at least 2 partitions which will
> > be contained in the extended partition. These are logical partitions.
> > I think logical partitions HAVE TO start from /dev/hda5 even if you do not
> > use a /dev/hda4 for a primary partition, but check it out anyway.
>   the number in the partition is a running number from 1 to 8. You can't 
> have hda5 without having hda4 and hda3 and so on. 
>   What more you can't boot linux from an extended dos partition (making 
> one if dos' fdisk creats a dos extended not only extended).  

Well, that is where you are wrong - the primary paratitions are divided 
to max of 4 paratitions on /dev/hda[1-4] and the logical are on /dev/hda[5-8]
and the extended one is on /dev/hda[1-4] so:
the guy wants dos and linux on sum of 1Gb and with out EIDE controller so:
528(?) will be dos (i.e. cyl number 0-1023)
and the other will be Linux (i.e. 1024-the end)
when (doing it with linux fdisk):
/dev/hda1	FAT	primary	1-1024
/dev/hda2	-	ext.	1025-end
/dev/hda5	swap	logical	+20M
/dev/hda6	ext2fs	logical	+to the end
and booting linux with the utility of loadlin/x !

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