On Saturday 20 November 2004 01:52, Lanman wrote: > Never let it be said that I don't bring interesting problems to the > list! This time, the problem makes no sense, unless someone has written > a boot-sector virus and included it on the Mandrake 10.1 Community CD's.
> and they haven't helped at all. I've installed another new drive and had > the exact same results. > > Does anyone have any suggestions or helpful advice? This is just plain > weird and I'm running out of ideas so I'd appreciate any help the list > can offer. > > TIA > > Lanman > Registered Linux User #190712 Having had a (seagate) drive that always had this (why I never found out, but I suspect diskdrake)......No way I could get the boot sector written to:( I "solved" that by just "dd" -ing an existing almost similar drive directly to it, and editing lilo everytime after. As in "dd if=/dev/hda of="/dev/hdb" using "tomsrtbt" , that way the mbr gets copied too. Somehow copying the bootsector_only with dd wouldn't do it either. You could try it just to see if the damn thing will boot at all. -- Good luck, HarM
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