Re: MILO. now it boots - but ...
On Friday, 4 Jun, Oliver wrote:
> thanks a lot to all who helped me - I can boot my system from a floppy. The
> next should be to install MILO on my HDD. I leave a partition with 2MB
> unused (no fs). So I tried "dd if=/dev/sda1 of=partitio bs=1440" but I
> wasn't able to boot from the srm-console with "boot dka0".
If you want to boot from SRM, your disk must be partitioned with the BSD
disklabel scheme.
Funny enough, I just tried fdisk, cfdisk, and sfdisk, and none of them
recognised my disklabel-partitioned drives. Something must have gone
wrong with the util-linux package. At least fdisk used to understand
BSD partitions some time ago.
Chances are high that your current partitioning scheme is different
(PC-ish). In this case you can't make SRM boot from the hard drive
unless you re-partition it. (I wonder how this can be possible, given
the current state of Debian's fdisk.)
Nikita
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