aboot not working or something

[bdina at seresc.net]

Quoting bdina at seresc.net:

> Quoting Michal Jaegermann <michal at ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca>:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:08:18PM -0400, Bryan Dina wrote:
> > 
> > Well ....
> > 
> > To erase an old partition table (a good idea) you can do
> > 
> >    dd if=/dev/zero count=2 > /dev/sda (or whatever your boot disk
> >                                        device happens to be).
> > 
> > either from a text console during an installation or after you
> > booted into a "rescue" mode.
> > 
> > DiskDruid will accept an existing partition table, even if this is of a
> > BSD type, but it may get confused if you have some lefovers of an old
> > MS-DOS type partition table.  If you will ask to partition it will write
> > a table of the second kind and a firmware on your machine does not know
> > how to deal with it.  For non-boot disks you may use one or another
> > partitioning.  Linux does not care.
> 
> Im a fairly certain I have not written MS-DOS type partitions... fdisk does
> always report it starts in BSD disklabel.
> 
> --Bryan
>

I suppose I will try a low level formatting of the hard disk, and a "cleaner"
restart of the installation process... I wrote in an earlier post that I have
seen many inconsistencies, such as never seeing the single "c" partition that
consumes the entire disk, labeled "unused".  Maybe the low level will fix all of
this.

--Bryan

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