[Novalug] disk organization question

[Roger W. Broseus]

google might be your friend. i googled
    boot grub logical partition
and got, e.g.,
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/18010.html
http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse91/suselinux-adminguide/html/ch07s04.html
  look at section 7.4.1.2. -- 7.4.1.3

if you do on-the-fly edits during booting grub, you might be able to 
test to see what parameters are needed.

Good luck. (The is not such thing as free grub, er, I mean lunch.)

/roger




Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> I am configuring a multiboot laptop right now.
>
> first time through I made 4 primary partitions
>
> (1)  a ext2 partition /hda1 with root (/)on it
>
> (2) ext3 partition /hda2 wit /home on it. 
>
> (3) a hard file partition with my amiga/amithlon OS on it
>
> (4) a linux swap partition.
>
> Then I decided I wanted to add FreeDOS to the mix.  
>
> But I had no primary partitions left so I deleted the swap partition and
> resized the ext3 partition - made a new primary partition out of the
> excess and then made a logical vfat partition for freedos and a seocnd 
> logical partition for linux swap.
>
> Well linux still boots, amithlon boots. Freedos boots from its CD and 
> installs on the vfat partition but grub gives me a error 12: when I try
> and boot into freedos from the grub menu. The freedos people suggested
> that maybe grub cannot boot an OS from a logical partition.
>
> DOes anyone have any insight into this?
>
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Roger W. Broseus
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