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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install 
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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 07:27:07 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I've seen this before (sysinstall or libdisk creates an invalid partition
> table with an ending C/H/S values of 1023/1/1 or something like that) but
> don't have any free disks to duplicate it on now.  I tried sysinstall
> on a sliced floppy.  This used to sort of work, but now sysinstall dumps
> core writing the partition table.  Also, sysinstall no longer sort of works
> when run by non-root - keyboard input isn't recognised.  Also, the
> libdisk tags got lost when libdisk was moved to /usr/src/lib.

I'll look into all of this tomorrow, once I get back from a short trip.

					Jordan