Wolfgang Solfrank schrieb:

> An extended partition is just as any other MBR partition, having a special
> type (namely 5).  Its first sector is in essence just an MBR, with again up
> to four partitions, but without the code to load the first sector of those
> secondary partitions.  This is the reason that (on PCs) those secondary
> partitions are not bootable (which would be easy to correct if someone would
> modify the standard MBR code to take the offset into account and place it in
> the extended partition's MBR).  

LILO can boot my Linux, which is on an extended partition!

> Now I know that this is by far more than you ever wanted to know about
> partitions, but nevertheless it might be of interest to someone.

No - very interesting :)

Alex