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| -rw-r--r-- | en/partitioning/partition/alpha.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/en/partitioning/partition/alpha.xml b/en/partitioning/partition/alpha.xml index 50621edb9..6cca8373a 100644 --- a/en/partitioning/partition/alpha.xml +++ b/en/partitioning/partition/alpha.xml @@ -25,12 +25,13 @@ command to enter disk label mode. Unless you wish to use the disk you are partitioning from Tru64 Unix or one of the free 4.4BSD-Lite derived operating systems (FreeBSD, -OpenBSD, or NetBSD), it is suggested that you do -<emphasis>not</emphasis> make the third partition contain the whole -disk. This is not required by <command>aboot</command>, and in fact, -it may lead to confusion since the <command>swriteboot</command> -utility used to install <command>aboot</command> in the boot sector -will complain about a partition overlapping with the boot block. +OpenBSD, or NetBSD), you should <emphasis>not</emphasis> create the +third partition as a <quote>whole disk</quote> partition (i.e. with +start and end sectors to span the whole disk), as this renders the +disk incompatible with the tools used to make it bootable with aboot. +This means that the disk configured by the installer for use as the +Debian boot disk will be inaccessible to the operating systems mentioned +earlier. </para><para> |