Herman Bos \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb Got new hardware (DG965WH); yay; doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even boot<\/a>
\nNormally Linux doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to have its partition marked with the boot flag (windows does), so I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really guess something like this myself. But it seems that the Intel BIOS checks the partition table and only agrees to boot from a disk if a partition is marked with the boot flag.<\/p>\nIntel, you utter, utter cocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This morning, found this blog post: Herman Bos \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb Got new hardware (DG965WH); yay; doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even boot Normally Linux doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to have its partition marked with the boot flag (windows does), so I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really guess … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumble"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-ea","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4793,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/02\/adventures-in-the-apple-partition-map-part-2-of-the-continuing-adventures-with-the-apple-power-macintosh-7200-120-pc-compatible\/","url_meta":{"origin":878,"position":0},"title":"Adventures in the Apple Partition Map (Part 2 of the continuing adventures with the Apple Power Macintosh 7200\/120 PC Compatible)","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2022-02-02","format":false,"excerpt":"I \"recently\" wrote about obtaining a new (to me, actually quite old) computer over in The Apple Power Macintosh 7200\/120 PC Compatible (Part 1). 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