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RE: Improved aboot (with updated documentation) from boot floppies

Subject: RE: Improved aboot (with updated documentation) from boot floppies
From: Larry Sendlosky (larry@scrugs.lkg.dec.com)
Date: Fri Mar 3 13:51:21 2000

>
> Can I ask a dumb question: does it grok standard Linux partition tables?
>

  What's a standard Linux partition table?

  SRM definition boot block conflicts with where the DOS partition
  table resides. So, I guess the answer to your question would be 'no'.

  Is Alpha/SRM the only Linux platform that can't boot from DOS
  partitions? Wouldn't surprise me if it was.

  larry

______________________________________________________________________
 Larry Sendlosky ATS
 larry@scrugs.lkg.dec.com (978) 506-6640 Compaq
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