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> So it's the time to learn how to make your own boot/root/rescue
> disks. At that point you'll be fully independent from m$.
I have no problem but one, in doing that. My floppy drive is dying, and
it's OK for reading disks, but I can't write a damn thing with it...
there's something wrong with the heads. And, as for the other computers,
they all have floppy problems of their own. I need money.
Also, more often than not, the reason that I screw something up royal is
becuase I do something really _stupid_ that I did out of curiosity or
because something told me to. For example... the last time I did
something really stupid, I looked into the possibility of another
bootloader for Linux, and found one called Partition Magic or something
like that for DOS. So, under Linux I downloaded it, and I rebooted to the
DOS system.
I ran and installed this partition loader. Oops... forgot to install LILO
on /dev/hda3... =( ... luckily, I have a DOS version of dd and I saved the
first 512 bytes of /dev/hda... Anyway, then I did that, and reinstalled
the bootloader... it worked, but it said that the Linux partition was
illegally partitioned.... It said that the Linux partition was 17
cylinders over the end of the hard disk. OK, I thought, we'll fix that.
WRONG.
fsck *hated* that change. Linux and DOS disagree on the cylinders for
some reason. Anyway, it was so bad, Linux wouldn't let me login... so I
went on the Internet and searched for an answer.... well, I didn't find an
answer-- so I tried something -- after 3 reboots into Linux and failed.
I found the option to manually change the sectors (I didn't remember the
cylinder thing then)... fsck reported a difference of sectors, telling the
old value and the new value.... So I changed it to the old value (the
"illegal" one in DOS) and it worked after taking a half-hour to fsck the
hard disk, and fix the thousands (I kid thee not) of errors that it found
towards the end of the drive.
::grr:: stupid mistake...
- Mike
>
> Raider
> --
> ``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
>
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