Having problems creating images on the hda disks of the slaves.

[Robert Sand]

All,

After installing with the Scyld distribution disk I am having problems using the
beofdisk and beoboot-install on the /dev/hda devices on the slave nodes.

All nodes are the same and the default created by beofdisk -d is correct:

# partition table of /dev/hda"
unit: sectors

/dev/hda1 : start=       63, size=  16002, Id=84
/dev/hda2 : start=       16065, size=  2072385, Id=82
/dev/hda3 : start=       2088450, size=  17944605, Id=83
/dev/hda4 : start=       0, size=  0, Id=0

from /etc/beowulf/fdisk

When I do a beofdisk -w to write the label ont each of the disks I get these
error messages:

   Device Boot    Start       End  #sectors  Id  System
/dev/hda1            63     16064     16002  84  OS/2 hidden C: drive
/dev/hda2         16065   2088449   2072385  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda3       2088450  20033054  17944605  83  Linux
/dev/hda4             0         -         0   0  Empty
Warning: no primary partition is marked bootable (active)
This does not matter for LILO, but the DOS MBR will not boot this disk.
Successfully wrote the new partition table

Do I have to set one of the partitions as bootable and how do I do that with the
given utilities?

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