Given the capabilities of LILO, you can probably fit eight OSes on a single drive. The idea is transfer control directly to the applicable partition. I assume you're not doing other things like disklabels which I don't understand yet (hello BSD!) You may have to perform some magic to convince each OS to put itself in some locations. MS* would probably be a really big bear to convince to install to a logical partition. Specifically you'd probably designate that location on disk as primary, install your OS, remap that space to a logical drive and then use lilo in your MBR. It's certainly not for the faint of heart since I don't know that the existing partitioning tools would help you do that sort of heresy. There are plenty of docs on the internet that describe your partition table format so you could go edit it yourself to get this result. All in all probably more work that it is worth but certainly achievable. Josh ___SIG___ On Thu, 24 May 2001, Jason J wrote: > DOS and windows will boot if there are more than one primary partitions of any type. Its just that dos/windows wants to be on the first primary > partition. NT and 2000 will boot fine from other paritions. > > There can be a maximum of 4 partitions on a hard drive. These 4 or made up of primary and extended partitions. Typically 4 primary or 3 primary and > 1 extended. That extended partition can have infinite (i am sure there is a max but i dont know it) logical partitions. You can not boot from an > extended/logical partition. > > I believe as long as you have one parition that contains boot information for the other OS's you can get more than just 3 or 4 OS's on a box. > Though I have never even attempted a 5-Boot system. I did have Win98, Win2000(unhidden FAT on a logical partition), BeOS 5 and Debian (Swap drive > on logical partition) on one machine, but that got old quick. Now its just Win2000 and Debian. > > Correct me if I am wrong please. > > > > Munir Nassar wrote: > > > you seem to be correct... DOS/Windows 95/98 will not > > even bootup if you create more than one primary > > FAT/FAT32 partition...(get your hands on GNU parted > > and try it out) > > > > -munir > > --- Joshua Jore <moomonk at rogue.electricgod.net> wrote: > > > Actually, I seem to recall that dos and win9x/me all > > > want exactly one > > > primary partition with everything else in one to > > > four logical partitions > > > in an extended partition. I've never actually had a > > > problem with two or > > > more primary partitions but there is a MS KB article > > > citing possible data > > > loss. I've alwaysb assumed that there is a rarely > > > used part of windows > > > that will do something spectacular if it finds the > > > extra primary > > > partitions. Of course, this only applies to (V)FAT. > > > Primary partitions of > > > other types are invisible as always. > > > > > > Josh > > > > > > ___SIG___ > > > > > > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Munir Nassar wrote: > > > > > > > not necessarily true, i usually put a /boot ext2 > > > > partition at the beginning of the drive (back in > > > the > > > > days of the old lilo) and after that i put > > > windows... > > > > the only thing it really needs it > > > > > > > > A) it be a primary partition > > > > B) there be no more than 4 primary partitions on > > > the > > > > drive (you can have more if they are hidden > > > primaries) > > > > > > > > -munir > > > > --- "Andy Zbikowski (Zibby)" <zibby at ringworld.org> > > > > wrote: > > > > > Windows will only boot from the first partition > > > on > > > > > the primiary hard > > > > > drive. Though with some lilo tricks your can get > > > it > > > > > to boot off the first > > > > > partition of any harddrive. > > > > > > > > > > | Andrew S. 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