Vijay,
Thanks -- fdisk /mbr is a much less drastic approach (assuming it
works).
Randy Kramer
> Randy,
> The problem here is the partition tables but not the partition info. .it is
> the boot loader.. If you wiped out the linux partitions by formatting them (or
> deleting them) while forgetting to uninstall GRUB or LILO then the boot loader
> would try to find the /boot (or /sbin for lilo correct me if I am wrong.. not at
> the machine now) at boot time and having found none would stall the boot process
> ..
For the problems I had, I completed the reinstall, but sometimes, the
problem that existed before I did the reinstall reoccurred after the
install. Don't remember any examples, but I could get rid of the
problem by fiddling with the partitions as described and then
reinstalling. Maybe I was in the Twilight Zone, or at the Outer Limits?
>
> the right solution is to reset the MBR (master boot record) by FDISK /MBR
> (dos boot floppy) or restore the partition table information by MBRWORK from
> www.terabytesunlimited.com.
>
> hth,
> Vijay.
