Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: > People having boot problems with IBM servers, like we've had > in the past when using SystemImager to reinstall a Linux server, > may be interested in reading the following notice published by > IBM today: > > http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=ibm&lndocid=MIGR-66117 > Symptom: > "After installing Linux on a system with a hard drive which has > previously been installed with another operating system, the Linux > operating system may fail to boot correctly. The error may be seen > as the boot loader not appearing or only partially loading." > > The workaround is to overwrite the disk MBR, which I believe > is actually done in recent versions of SystemImager. >
Yes, this problem has been fixed in 3.7.4. Just a funny note... the solution suggested by IBM is to issue the command "dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/XXX bs=512 count=1"... well, this command simply does *nothing*, since the input block device is null (with size==0). :-) The correct command should be "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/XXX bs=512 count=1". Anyway thanks for reporting it, -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
