Re[2]: still not booting

1999-02-26 Thread CHAUMARAT Gilles
First, I'll answer my own question: (And how many kinds of incompatible partition table are there?) The answer is quite a lot. See check_partition() in linux/drivers/block/genhd.c for a list of the ones that Linux can understand. I managed to convert my previous

Re: still not booting

1999-02-25 Thread Steve Dunham
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, I'll answer my own question: (And how many kinds of incompatible partition table are there?) The answer is quite a lot. See check_partition() in linux/drivers/block/genhd.c for a list of the ones that Linux can understand. I

Re: still not booting

1999-02-25 Thread Eric Delaunay
Steve Dunham wrote: Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, I'll answer my own question: (And how many kinds of incompatible partition table are there?) The answer is quite a lot. See check_partition() in linux/drivers/block/genhd.c for a list of the ones that Linux

Re: still not booting

1999-02-25 Thread edmundo
You can't have swap as the first partition on the disk. The boot loader and the swap overwrite each other. My first partition starts at 1, rather than 0, because fdisk warned me about that problem. But I can't boot even if I run swapoff before running silo before shutdown -h and attempted