On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Smith writes:
> >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes:
> >>
> >> >All of the above only work for the easy case where the whole disk is
> >> >being labelled. In general, the disk size must be reduced to the slice
> >> >size before applying a label to a slice.
> >>
> >> And that is the problem, it seems that "dangerously dedicated" doesn't
> >> boot anymore...
> >
> >It never did, on many hardware variants. Use "truly dedicated"
> >instead, which should still work fine.
>
> My semantics may be wrong on these two: what I'm talking about is
> what is in handbook chapter 8 "Using command line utilities " gives
> you a disk which doesn't boot.
What BIOS do you have?
Did you try the tutorial version?
I know machines that won't boot disks missing MS partition tables.
Doug White
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