Subject: Re: Bootability eludes me once again
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/09/2002 18:49:07
> : | start 64, size 64 (0 MB), flag 0x80
> : | beg: cylinder 0, head 1, sector 2
> : | end: cylinder 0, head 2, sector 2
>
> Okay, so it's bootable, but realize that your partition starts one sector
> "late" from a BIOS cylinder, AND, the size of this partition is nearly nil
it's normal setting done with installboot/disklabel
> (64 blocks). Some BIOSes will not allow reading blocks beyond the end of
> the partition, and it's pretty likely that /boot will reside beyond block 64
> of that partition. 8-)
BIOS don't know the term "partition"