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SubjectRe: Invalid partition table, 1st entry [OFFTOPIC]
Guest section DW wrote:
> LILO expects a DOS-type partition table, so if you want to use LILO on hda
> and also have FreeBSD on hda, it is easiest to have FreeBSD inside a
> partition, and not on the whole disk.

Actually, if the problem is only that the partition table isn't supposed to
be valid, adding ignore-table to the global section of /etc/lilo.conf may
do the trick. LILO will still complain, but it will try to continue anyway.

- Werner

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