possibly because the previous installation of rh put the boot sector in the
mbr instead of the first sector of hda6. not sure on how to correct this.
what if u used the upgrade option in the installation and put the boot
sector in the first sector ? Anyone ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "linux India" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 11:01 AM
Subject: [LIH] Change of parttion names.
> I have a pc with a 8 gb disc in partitions as follows:
>
> hda1 win95 vfat
> hda5 win95 vfat
> hda6 win95 vfat
> hda7 linux swap
> hda8 linux native.
>
> hda1 was c:, hda5 was d: and hda6 was e: under windoze. hda7 & hda8 were
f:
> which I deleted and used to load rh 6.2.
>
> I had a dual boot with win98 and pcq rh 6.2. I wanted to load one more
linux
> distro (Debian) so what I did was deleted hda6 from cfdisk so as to
convert
> it to ext2 partition.
>
> What now happened was that the partition that was previously hda8 (linux
> native with rh6.2) now got marked as hda6 and the new partition that I
> created became hda8 (which used to be hda6 (ie win98 E: )) .
>
> Anyway I went ahead and loaded Debian on the new hda8. after it was loaded
I
> could boot into debian and then decided to add the entry for rh 6.2 in
> lilo.conf of debian so as to be able to load either rh or debian. I made
the
> entries for rh in the lilo.conf file, ran lilo and got the following
error:
>
> Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda6 doesn't have a valid boot signature.
>
> What does this error mean ? So now what should be my next step ? I hope I
> don't sound confusing but I can clarify anything you may want to know.
>
> Sharukh.
>
>
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