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Re: AS1200 : Boot help!



On Sat, 14 May 2005, Ted Goodridge, Jr. wrote:

> it's really easiest to use fdisk to partition an BSD label disk in my
> experience.  You need to make sure you start at sector 3 with yoru first
> partition, and not use sectors 1 and 2 on the disk you want to boot from.
> These sectors will be used by the bootloader when you install it.
> 
> It's a pain, but that's how you get it to work.

And, be sure not to define a BSD 'c' slice which uses the entire disk!  It 
fatally confuses Disk Druid.


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