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Re: Newbie question about booting.

Subject: Re: Newbie question about booting.
From: Hannes Reinecke (civhr@civ.hw.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Apr 5 05:47:28 2000

Jamesvi@asu.edu wrote:
>
> Just a curiosity, but I recall (as I had to do it again last week) that c:
> should be the BSD disk label that encompasses the entire disk no? Please
> help me out if I am mistaken because I would like to better understand BSD
> disklabeling. Without that aboot would be unable to actually boot the
> device no? Just curious.

Actually, no.
OSF/1 (or whatever its current name ist) uses partition 'c' for
accessing the whole disk (much like /dev/sda in linux). Therefore you
probably won't be able to start OSF/1.
Everyone else does boot happily with any layout you care to do.

HTH,

Hannes 

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Hannes Reinecke                                 <civhr@civ.hw.ac.uk>
Fluid Loading and Instrumentation Center  Tel: (+44) 131 449 5111 x4430
Dept. of Civil & Offshore Engineering           Fax: (+44) 131 451 3154
Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS

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