Lilo to Talk?

[Holmes, Steve]

How can you tell if it is "active" or not? I've been both cfdisk and fdisk
and they mention primary and extended.  I have two partitions: hda1 for 8
cyls which is my swap (82 linux swap) and hda2 for the remainder of the
drive which is (83 linux native).  Fdisk shows a star on hda2 (I think
because I have it marked as bootable.  Neither of these utilities mention
anything about activating a partition.  Someone else mentioned activation to
me but not really sure where to go with that one.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kirk Wood [mailto:cpt.kirk at 1tree.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:39 AM
To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca'
Subject: RE: Lilo to Talk?


Have you partitioned the "new" disk with it in location? The reason I ask
is I have made the mistake you may have made more then once. If you move a
drive which has been partitioned in any other position then /dev/hda the
drive may not have a partition marked active. I recomend you check to make
sure you have an active partition. As a side note, all will seem to work
well outside the lack of booting. (Also if you have a sighted person
arround check the bios setting. It can mistake lilo for a virus.

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Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net

Cluelessness
	There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of 
	inquisitive idiots


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