Re: Unable to make Linux bootable from HD or make boot floppy

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

I'm going to make 2 replys, to 2 differennt parts of this
email,

On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 13:03, Mark Fickett wrote:
> Hello again,
[big snip]
> My current partition sceme is
> hda1: 379.98MB Primary Linux Swap, bootable
> hda2: 48.10MB Primary Linux ext2, at the end of the disk

Ack!!!!  You can't boot off a swap disk!!!!  Make it
hda1: 379.98MB Primary Linux ext2 bootable
hda2: 48.10MB Primary Linux swap, at the end of the disk

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