[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On some Alphas, the BIOS can only boot from BSD partitions. You can't > have other partition types for the boot partition!
That's not strictly true. You just need the correct magic in the last few bytes of the first sector - which only screws the fourth partition entry in the DOS partitioning scheme, and you just make sure that the partition type byte is zero - you can do that easily enough, because it's in the bit that SRM wants to be a checksum - so by changing one of the bytes elsewhere that aren't important, you can make the checksum have a zero in the relevant byte. :) But yeah - booting from SRM to non-BSD partitions is a PITA, certainly. -- dwmw2
