Lilo to Talk?

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi Steve,

	It sounds like you have things et up right... "Active" is the same as "bootable". You toggle it on or off in both cfdisk and fdisk.

	There is one thing though that I've seen and can't see why it's allowed (haven't tried it to see)... You can have more than one partition tagged as "active" or "bootable". Why would you want that? or what would happen if you marked two ro more partitions "active"? I'd guess that the first one marked "active" wuld be the one to boot?

HTH (and if anyone knows the academic answer to my question? (grin))

	--terry

You wrote:

-=> How can you tell if it is "active" or not? I've been both cfdisk and fdisk
-=> and they mention primary and extended.  I have two partitions: hda1 for 8
-=> cyls which is my swap (82 linux swap) and hda2 for the remainder of the
-=> drive which is (83 linux native).  Fdisk shows a star on hda2 (I think
-=> because I have it marked as bootable.  Neither of these utilities mention
-=> anything about activating a partition.  Someone else mentioned activation to
-=> me but not really sure where to go with that one.
-=>
-=> -----Original Message-----
-=> From: Kirk Wood [mailto:cpt.kirk at 1tree.net]
-=> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:39 AM
-=> To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca'
-=> Subject: RE: Lilo to Talk?
-=>
-=>
-=> Have you partitioned the "new" disk with it in location? The reason I ask
-=> is I have made the mistake you may have made more then once. If you move a
-=> drive which has been partitioned in any other position then /dev/hda the
-=> drive may not have a partition marked active. I recomend you check to make
-=> sure you have an active partition. As a side note, all will seem to work
-=> well outside the lack of booting. (Also if you have a sighted person
-=> arround check the bios setting. It can mistake lilo for a virus.
-=>
-=> =======
-=> Kirk Wood
-=> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
-=>
-=> Cluelessness
-=> 	There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of
-=> 	inquisitive idiots
-=>
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		--terry

Name:	Terry D. Cudney
Phone:	(905)735-6127
E-mail:	terry at wasagacottage.com
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