Sorry for the yet another HOWTO. I was lucky not to have such problems and only remember that they were mentioned in various HOWTOs. Anyway, I believe you will find interest in sections 7 (Translation and Disk Managers) and 8 (Kernel disk translation for IDE disks) of the Large-Disk-HOWTO.
> I have also read the referenced mini-HowTos. > Additional info - the Maxtor drive came with a utility > called EZ-Drive, which is still active during boot. I have > a syslog entry which reads: > Partition check: > hda: [EZD] [remap 0->1] > > Do I need to overwrite the first sector to restore > the MBR? I can still boot from floppy, but I'm at > a loss as to how to restore my hard drive so I can > boot directly from it. > > Thanks for any help. > > > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > I have a 30 GB Maxtor hard drive, with a 15 MB boot partition as > > > the first partition. This is followed by root and swap. > > > > > > Apparently, I have somehow corrupted my partition table, because > > > on boot I get the message NO PT, HIT ANY KEY TO CONTINUE > > > > > > When I do so, Lilo responds with LIL- and hangs. I can still boot > > > from floppy, but only the older 2.2.X kernels. > > > > > > I have read the Large Disk How-To, but can't figure out what's > > > wrong. Can anyone help? > > > > > > Thanks much, > > > Russ > > > > > > > > > The Partition Rescue mini HOWTO sounds relevant. The Linux Partition > > HOWTO, which is another mini HOWTO has a section about Recovering a > > Deleted Partition Table. > > Both are from the LDP. > > -- > > > > Shaul Karl > > email: shaulka(at-no-spam)bezeqint.net > > Please replace (at-no-spam) with an at - @ - character. > > (at-no-spam) is meant for unsolicitate mail senders only. > > > > > > > -- Shaul Karl email: shaulka(at-no-spam)bezeqint.net Please replace (at-no-spam) with an at - @ - character. (at-no-spam) is meant for unsolicitate mail senders only.