unbootable hard disk

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

That makes a lot of sense. Now my next problem is to get the box
back from the butchers. I wish I had asked for help here first
before asking the shop to reexamine the cabling and HW settings.

On 18 Jan 2003, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> After looking through this thread, I would say that either lilo isn't
> replacing it's boot record or mbr is not being put on sector 0.  When
> the system boots, sector 0 gets run which then calls another program
> depending on whether you are using a boot manager like lilo or not.
> Clearly that boot sector is not being run which can only mean a bad
> drive sector or no mbr is present.  I suspect it has to be one of
> those things.
>
> If you have booted from a flopy then you need to use the chroot and -R
> option of lilo to have it write a new boot record to the hard drive
> instead of the floppy.  You may be just rewriting the floppy's lilo
> sector.
>
>   Kirk
>
>

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