On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 16:52 +0100, Chris Andrew wrote: > Martin, > > With regard to the Etch install, I installed Sarge, which was fine. i > then did a dist-upgrade to Etch. > > Previously, I had been getting "File does not appear to be > executable", on my first reboot. I had a bit of a long-shot and > installed debian on my 2nd HDD. My two disks were labelled something > like disk 0 and 1, when I picked where to install debian. I was > making the mistake of thinking that the default boot was disk 0. This should be configurable in OpenBoot.
> I was wrong. When I installed on the 2nd disk, everything worked > just fine. Hence my install of Etch, which is just finishing. Cool. > With regard to the second part of your message, copying the disk > geometry etc, yo totally lost me, I'm afraid. It's a lot easier than that. /If/ the problem is with the disk label on the second disk, then something like: 1. Copy the data off the "200Mb" disk cp -arv /mnt/200Mb /mnt/somewhere-safe/ 2. Zero the start of the disk (thus overwriting the disk label) (remember to unmount first though...) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/200Mb count=100 3. Use fdisk to build a new disk label and make sure the values are correct for the disk (real ones should be given in dmesg when the disk is recognised, or maybe in /proc/, or probably printed on the disk) fdisk /dev/200Mb > Hope this helps the archive. Hopefully it will help if someone has the same problem and searches the archives for a solution. Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]