Re: Unable to boot from hdd with recent lilo/mbr packages!!!
On Monday 28 May 2001 21:23, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Not sure if this matters or not. I've found that marking /dev/hda as
> bootable and installing lilo on this directly seems to work where
> booting a marked-bootable partition doesn't.
How do you mark /dev/hda as bootable? The bootable flag for /dev/hda1 etc is
stored in the first sector of /dev/hda, there is no support for marking
/dev/hda as bootable or non-bootable.
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