On Tue, Jun 24, 1997 at 01:56:23PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote: > > boot=/dev/hda3 > > This should read > > boot=/dev/hda > > no? Debian's installation gets this wrong, listing the boot device as > a partition on the disk, when you're supposed to use the whole disk. > This has caused problems for me, until I noticed it and changed it > back to /dev/hda. > > Perhaps I'm wrong,
It's fine to set boot=/dev/hdaN, as long as partition hdaN is marked active. This setup is required for OS/2 Boot Manager, etc; I can't see an advantage in writing to the MBR (/dev/hda) rather than the partition itself. LILO will disappear during Windows95 installation if written to the MBR; only the active partition will be changed if it's in the boot sector (hdaN), and you can get it back with just Windows fdisk. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [**** ] 48% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
