On 6/24/05, Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colin wrote: > > > > > > > A more obscure BIOS tactic common back in the day was to put all or > > part of it in a hidden area on the primary master hard drive. This > > might be your issue, except I think this was only Compaq 486/Pentium > > systems. Name-brand computers always have some proprietary "feature" > > to keep us power users away (like warranties, or older Dells' > > nonstandard power supplies). > > -- > > Colin > > > When you ran fdisk and created all your partitions, did you flag one of > them as bootable? > > -- > Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) > Westbank, B. C > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
I did what I always do: /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 /dev/hda2 swap /dev/hda3 / reiser and I don't recall ever flagging anything as bootable (other than installing grub) to the MBR. Where do you flag partitions as bootable in fdisk? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
