Re: Invalid boot signature

2001-08-10 Thread Sven Garbade
Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > Try a lilo -P fix -v 5 which should spit out tons of usefull goodies and > hopefully repair your partition table. > > or lilo -P ignore if fix doesn't work. thanks, this do the trick. I didn't delete the other=blabla section in lilo.conf ... By, Sven

Re: Invalid boot signature

2001-08-10 Thread Michael Heldebrant
Try a lilo -P fix -v 5 which should spit out tons of usefull goodies and hopefully repair your partition table. or lilo -P ignore if fix doesn't work. --mike On 10 Aug 2001 17:19:35 +0200, Sven Garbade wrote: > Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > On 10 Aug 2001 09:35:30 -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrot

Re: Invalid boot signature

2001-08-10 Thread Sven Garbade
Michael Heldebrant wrote: On 10 Aug 2001 09:35:30 -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > Actually does running cfdisk show that the boot flag is on hda1? It may > not be written to it yet was my guess. If it shows that it is there > would be no harm in retrying to write the bootable flag to it to s

Re: Invalid boot signature

2001-08-10 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 10 Aug 2001 09:35:30 -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > Actually does running cfdisk show that the boot flag is on hda1? It may > not be written to it yet was my guess. If it shows that it is there > would be no harm in retrying to write the bootable flag to it to see if > that fixes the probl

Re: Invalid boot signature

2001-08-10 Thread Sven Garbade
Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > What does cfdisk have to say about your disk geometry? > --mike Disk Drive: /dev/hda Size: 10262568960 bytes Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 1247 There are no error messages generated by cfdisk By, Sven > On 10 Aug 2001 14:38:16 +0200, Sven Garbade

Re: Invalid boot signature

2001-08-10 Thread Michael Heldebrant
What does cfdisk have to say about your disk geometry? --mike On 10 Aug 2001 14:38:16 +0200, Sven Garbade wrote: > Hi all, > > today I've deleted all Windows/DOS stuff on one of our Debian (Potato) > Boxes. Then I rearranged the hard disk. I know looks like: >

Invalid boot signature

2001-08-10 Thread Sven Garbade
Hi all, today I've deleted all Windows/DOS stuff on one of our Debian (Potato) Boxes. Then I rearranged the hard disk. I know looks like: size in MB hda1BootPrimary Linux ext2 789.63 hda5Logical