Re: boot loader

[Rich Payne <rdp@talisman.mv.com>]

The disk needs to be have a BSD disklabel, but you don't want a partition
at the front. Just leave some free space. You're probably OK just deleting
your existing small partition.

--rdp

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Leonardo Saavedra Henriquez wrote:

>
> Hi all
>
> I have been traying to install Debian GNU/Linux on my Alpha server 800 and
> I have a little problem with aboot loader
> When I made the partitions (bsd disklabel style) I left an small empty
> partition at the beginning of the disk drive (from cylinder 1 to cylinder
> 2) for aboot, later the instaler program cannot install the aboot boot
> loader, I think the proble it could be the type of partition label.
> What kind of partition label it need to be? (unsused, 4.2BSD, boot,
> ...)
>
> TIA.
>
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