Re: Cloning to harddisk, EXT2

From: Joshua Hudson (joshudson@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 18:25:34 CEST


That is normal. The first sector of /dev/hda is the machine's bootloader.
It will, unless changed, load the bootloader of /dev/hda1 if it exists.

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From: Michele Andreoli <m.andreoli@tin.it>
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Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 08:40:15 +0200
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On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:16:54AM +0200, Fam. Coumans nicely wrote:

> Using '/dev/hda1' instead of '/dev/hda' caused the 'LI'.
> Now booting from harddisk works fine.

Strange ... /dev/hda1 is a partition; /dev/hda, usually, refer to
the whole device.

Michele

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