Re: [slackware-alphadevel] booting from hard disk

From: Sir Ace (chandleg@wizardsworks.org)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2001 - 18:43:11 PST


Yes this is true unfortunately... It's not srm's fault it's aboot's
fault..
I can give you whatever info you need for that whole mess, scince it is a
real pain in the ass... Especially scince partitions overlap each other.

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Chris Lumens wrote:

> So I read today that you have to have a BSD disklabel on the hard drive if
> you want to be able to boot from it under SRM. Is this true? If so, I'm
> going to have to do a significant amount of work to setup to get it to
> play nicely with both BSD disklabels and regular DOS-based drives.
>
> Let me know so I can get started on this big fun project.
>
> --
> Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
> @n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
> print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";
>

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