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DATE | 2003-06-05 |
FROM | Dave Williams
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SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Slackware again
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From owner-hangout-desteny-at-mrbrklyn.com Thu Jun 5 16:10:36 2003 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id h55KAacw014094 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:10:36 -0400 Received: (from mdom-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h55KAa06014093 for hangout-desteny; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:10:36 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: mdom set sender to owner-hangout-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com using -f Received: from athena.spinnet.net (athena.100megabit.com [216.235.147.84]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id h55KAVcw014088 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:10:31 -0400 Received: from dsc01-nyi-ny-6-244.rasserver.net (dsc01-nyi-ny-6-244.rasserver.net [205.184.170.244]) by athena.spinnet.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h55KDOE03056; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:13:24 -0400 Subject: Re: [hangout] Slackware again From: Dave Williams To: Rene Ferrer Cc: hangout-at-nylxs.com In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1054844001.5314.2.camel-at-connie> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 05 Jun 2003 16:13:21 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Dave Williams List: New Yorker GNU Linux Scene Admin: To unsubscribe send unsubscribe name-at-domian.com in the body to hangout-request-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Evolution: 00000593-0000 X-Keywords: X-UID: 13516 Status: RO Content-Length: 790 Lines: 24
Some laptops actually have a special partition that contains ACPI information. Using "fdisk /MBR" will get rid of the master boot record, but will still not remove the offending partition -- your boot partition will be shunted a few MB up, and not found by LILO.
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 15:17, Rene Ferrer wrote: > The MBR is still not gone. Apparently "fdisk /MBR" did not do the trick. > > I found two alternatives here: > http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue63/okopnik.html > > Worth reading and archiving into your bag of tricks. > > I have no floppy drive so I have to take the long way around this problem. > > > RF
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