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@xxxxxxxxx] 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. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net Cluelessness There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
