Just want to post this since I just spent sometime trying to do this today.
This did not work for me and I think I found the answer.
Some BIOS implementations can only address the first 1024 cylinders of
a hard drive, which corresponds to ~8.5 GB. How do you fix this? Create
your /boot partition before cylinder 1024; i.e. before ~8.5 GB
I found this information
here.
This is an old PC and I think that is my problem.
Athlon 800 Mhz
80 WD HD
Don't want to mess with the MBR and therefore would not like to install LILO
or GRUB.
Guess I have to stick with the boot disk.