Thread: Booting from logical partition
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Originally Posted by musicfanat View Post
I'm using N800 with the latest Diablo. Recently I followed the instructions on dual booting and succeded with my 8Gb SDHC. Then I tried the following instructions for SD partitioning and clone system again.
I'm able now to boot from p2 and p3 partitions but never from the logical ones. I can mount all of them and browse though, can read and write, but booting from p5-p7 always fails.
I tried the following
Code:
mknod -m600 initfs/dev/mmcblk0p5 b 254 5 2>/dev/null
but this did not help.
Is it possible to boot from logical partitions?
yes it is, if you have some free space you can install gparted-hack and mgmt-tools, it will setup bootmenu/initfs properly for you
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