> >LILO can boot my Linux, which is on an extended partition!
> That's because LILO cheats.  It has the (absolute?) C/H/S addresses of

Cheating or not - it *can* do it. So I love it. <g>

> Bypassing the MBR and the filesystem semantics this way means LILO is
> independent of any given filesystem, and can even boot from secondary
> partitions, but the failure modes are just awful.  (It also limits how
> big a kernel you can boot and how fragmented it can be.)

This is true. I have to do some things as modules, cause it went to big.

But that's not the main problem.

When HDDs get bigger and the BIOS keeps, somewhen there will appear
problems with this 4 primary, I would say.

(Cause nobody needs a 18 GB HDD seperated into 4 partitions. I'd need
for example 5 GB for /usr, 1 GB for /var, 500 MB for /home 1 GB for /opt
and others; one for Windows (games), and some for other OS's for testing
purposes)

Alex