Hi, Recently I upgraded my system with a new hard disk, and moved all of Debian over to the new harddisk. After having moved it, I recalibrated the old disk, scratching everything that was there including the master boot record.
This was ok, and all my files got themselves safely on their new destination. But after scratching the old hard disks, my Debian was no longer bootable from the hard disk, so I ran lilo... however, lilo reports that it can't install the boot info correctly. I know that if I formatted the hard disk under MS-DOS and then proceeded onto installing debian over it, and running lilo to make it bootable, things would be ok... heck, I've done that before with the same hard disk involved. But my problem is, that I don't have MS-DOS anymore :-) It is nowhere in sight here, only Linux... Has anyone had this problem before, and knows the answer? Apparantly it seems to me, that cfdisk doesn't format the boot part of the hard disk properly... is there another way to accomplish that, than to go down town and "buy" that horrible os lookalike MS-DOS and friends, just to install the boot block ;-) Sincerely, ÖEH -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
