Sir Ace wrote:
>
> 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.
>
According to the aboot FAQ (http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/aboot.html),
it is SRM's fault.
(I have never used aboot before, only milo, so I cannot really verify
this.)
>From the FAQ:
"DOS partition tables are the standard used by Linux and Windows.
AlphaBIOS systems
and every Linux kernel can read DOS partition tables. Unfortunately, the
SRM console's boot
sector format overlaps with parts of the DOS partition table on disk,
and therefore DOS partition tables cannot be used with SRM.
BSD disklabels are used by several variants of Unix, including Tru64.
SRM's boot block does
not conflict with the BSD disklabel (in fact, the BSD disklabel resides
entirely within
"reserved" areas of the first sector), and Linux can use a BSD
disklabel, provided that
support for BSD disklabels has been compiled into the kernel."
Just a FYI
It would be nice if we could find a way forthe two to coexist, aside
from separate
boot drives :)
--Chris Selivanow Lead Technician QwicNet, Inc.
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