RE: [LI] LILO protection

[Milind Lele <milindl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > But we cant make an extended partition active ! So we need atleast one
> > primary partition which is 'Linux native'. This can be /boot or /
> 
> That is, of course, true, if you use Windows fdisk. I just tried it with
> the linux fdisk, and it happily allowed making the extended partition the
> active one. Will experiment more and get back to you.
> 
I have been using a boot disk for such things. (The one created by
mkbootdisk on RHL). This was because I have a Win NT workstation, and I
couldn't find fdisk for Win NT!
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