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gopherCG · 05-04-2002, 10:15 PM

Sort of. Yeah, I agree the mbr is very fragile. The syslinux disk "is" the emergency disk, and it does allow me to choose an OS to boot (under the dos style you mentioned), but when I press enter for linux, it gives some error and ask for a second/correct disk. But I only have one, where can the other be?

Since I know of no software that safely changes logical to primary, I have an idea. I can format the three Linux parts. as NTFS, FAT16, or FAT32 and install on there. Just that I'm not sure if Linux can be installed there. It should be able to, since Linux supports them. Once I know this, I can reinstall.

05-04-2002, 10:15 PM	#9
gopherCG Member (3 bit) Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 6	Sort of. Yeah, I agree the mbr is very fragile. The syslinux disk "is" the emergency disk, and it does allow me to choose an OS to boot (under the dos style you mentioned), but when I press enter for linux, it gives some error and ask for a second/correct disk. But I only have one, where can the other be? Since I know of no software that safely changes logical to primary, I have an idea. I can format the three Linux parts. as NTFS, FAT16, or FAT32 and install on there. Just that I'm not sure if Linux can be installed there. It should be able to, since Linux supports them. Once I know this, I can reinstall.