Alain M. wrote: > Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: >> EA> Several users have lost their boot loader, >> You wish to say, that some boot-loaders don't have MBR signature? > > Being one that lost it, I can say with 99.999% certainty that my MBR was > ok. I believe that some obscure read error caused it to belive that my > MBR was wrong. > > Alain >
I will second that. My MBR was fine until fdisk decided to "fix it." I believe that it was an "obscure read error". Having fdisk write an MBR may be one of those operations where you not only ask "are you SURE" before doing the operation, but ask again "Are you REALLY SURE." The default should NEVER be to write to the MBR unless the user specifically requests it. Fdisk never asked me before it overwrote my MBR. My problem turned out to be repeatable ... I could trash my MBR any time I wanted just by booting FreeDOS and running FDISK. (This eventually led to a change in emm386 which eliminated the problem on that specific computer). Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
