[Techtalk] Extended Partitions - I found it! - QUITE! :)

[TechChiq]

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 10:35, Hamster wrote:
> Well I guess the subject line is a matter of opinion. As far as I'm
> concerned my question is still unanswered. You've simply stated "use 0x85"
> without explaining why. 

I tried. You didn't understand what information and links I've given so
far, so I guess I'll have to let someone else explain it. I think Brenda
Bell has a good insight on this far better than I so I'll leave this up
to her. All I know is what I googled and tried to share. I never
personally tried to use a DOS type partition to run Linux. I used Linux
for Linux and DOS for DOS. Why would I want to do otherwise? I never
like to mix apples and oranges unless absolutely necessary.

I don't know if you can even boot up linux from a DOS extended partition
if Linux is the only OS on your system, because 0x85 tells the computer
to look for a linux-based filesystem and 0x0F tells the computer to look
for a DOS-based LBA extended partition. So it may search for the boot
files differently and thus not find them. If you're not dual-booting,
there's no reason to put linux on a DOS-type (or Windows-type)
partition. Why would you want to?

> Why on earth won't an experiment "work too good"? It seems that in the
> absence of hard facts its the best way of finding out how it all works!

Technically, no experiment I've ever known worked very well - every
experiment I've ever tried needed some tweaking to work, sometimes at
all. That's why it's an experiment and not a solution. :) So in absense
of hard facts, it would only be an experiment. If there were hard facts,
it would be a solution and not an experiment. :)

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