Re: Still probelms to boot from SD
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 LannerHawk@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/7/99 11:40:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> ferret@phonewave.net writes:
>
> > /dev/sda1 0 1100 396000 83 Linux native
> > /dev/sda2 u 1100 1151 18360 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/sda3 0 1151 414360 0 Empt
>
>
> So why is the swap partition marked as read only? This is what the u flag
> designates, I believe. Swap seems to work if it is set as read only or
> without the flag. I have the swap flagless on a SPARC10. Just for cleanness
> and that Debian uses it anyway and ignores the read only flag?
>
> Just curious
I really don't know. That's how the Slink installer's fdisk set it up when
I did the partitioning. All I can say is that it works.
-- Ferret no baka (6/7th-clued Sparc newbie)
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