On Friday 19 November 2004 05:31 pm, Lanman wrote: > > That just happened to me (on 10.0 though) and I had to make the /boot > > partition "ACTIVE' using Partition Magic...after that, it was all > > downhill (er, uphill) > > > > -- > > stephen kuhn > > Thanks Stephen but I've never used Partition Magic, so I don't have it > lying around to try your suggestion. It would be nice if there was a > utility I could use to completely reformat or erase the MBR, especially > if it actually worked! None of the ones I downloaded were able to fix it > and neither were the anti-virus apps. > > I'm tempted to replace the m/board in case that's the problem. I'm > wondering if it might be the IDE controller or something. It might also > explain the drive (CRC errors) I had on the other drive. > > Maybe fate is trying to tell me that it's finally time for that 4 CPU > Tyan board with 4 fast Xeon's and a few Gig's of DDR ram. Jeesh! The > things I do just to run a "Solitaire" Game server! Grin! > > -- > Lanman > Registered Linux User #190712
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