On Thursday 19 July 2001 02:10 pm, you wrote:
> I think that your hypothesis is flawed. No BIOS has the ability to
> understand filesystems. It sees raw hardware. Its quite possible that
> the MBR of that drive is corrupted, which is making it appear as if
> there is no bootable OS on the drive.
>
> --- Condon Thomas A KPWA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > From: David A. Bandel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > >
> > > > Does Reiser FS work for / partitions?
> > >
> > > reiserfs will work on any partition -- caveat: your kernel must be
> > > compiled with reiserfs included (not a module). Then even /boot can
> >
> > be
> >
> > > reiserfs.
> >
> > I've run into a problem with a new hard drive and a ReiserFS installed
> > on
> > it. My current suspicion is that the BIOS must also accept/handle the
> > ReiserFS for it to be able to boot from a drive formatted in that
> > manner.
> >
> > My reason for assuming this is that I have installed SuSE 7.2 Pro on a
> > new
> > hard drive, and the Bios tells me there is an Hard Drive Failure if I
> > try to
> > boot from it. But if I boot from CD or floppy I can not only see that
> > installation, but access it, as well.
> >
> > Does anyone know if this is the case? Or a way to circumvent this
> > problem
> > if so?
> >
> > I haven't found a BIOS update that mentions file system type. I am
> > reluctant to re-install (for the third time) if this won't fix the
> > problem.
>
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> Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Lonnie is correct here. Try fdisk /mbr, then you make have to reinstall. But
try it with out reinstall or with recue disk first. I have had to on a used
disk & new disk just completely clean the whole thing and start fresh. No
partitions & a fdisk /mbr. You can use a newer version of dos to do it if you
like
--
Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas 75287
972 306-2296
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