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Doug White schrieb:
> 
> Some PC BIOSes won't boot a disk without a MS partition table.  Try
> booting a dangerously dedicated disk on a Phoenix machine and you'll see
> what I mean.
Hmm, I remember having exact this problem with a machine (Phoenix BIOS).

After some hacks to the secondary boot I was able to boot from the
dangerous dedicated disk, though.

Daniel


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