Re: tlug: RH 6 MBR install failure on 13 GB disk

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Klaus Kudielka wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 08:53:33PM +0900, Neil Booth wrote:
> > Don't know if it's the problem you're facing, but many BIOSes require
> > a partition (any partition whether bootable or otherwise) to be
> > flagged as active.
> 
> Really? Are they crazy? They should just load the MBR and start the
> code in there. They shouldn't even know about the format of the
> partition table. Some OSes (IIRC at least Nextstep) do not
> partition the disk at all.
> 
> Ok, they may check for a magic number (so that they dont boot from the
> bunch of zeroes you have just written to your MBR), but that's it.
> 

sure it's crazy... fortunately not ALL bioses do it, though.  I've only
had one computer that required this, actually.

> -Klaus
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