I did this with SuSE 7.0.. In order not to mess up the Master boot record on the hard disk I put LILO on a floppy. When I want to boot Linux I use the floppy to boot. Works well. There are ways to have the harddrive be multiboot but just didn't want to take the risk. Robert On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Grové Erasmus wrote:
Can Linux filesystems be made at the back of a hard disk ? Would creation of the filesystem at the back of the hard disk allow Linux to boot ? I have 40Gb hard disk, the first 32GB is allocted to NTFS and FAT32 . I am using Partion Magic Pro 7. This is on my main hard disk. I have a 2nd 20Gb hard disk that I use to play with so I wont mess up my hard disk.
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