On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > 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...
The package mbr provides a master boot record with more features than the MSDOS version. I can't tell you much about the details, but reading what's in /usr/doc/mbr/README-1st.Debian and especially /usr/sbin/liloconfig will probably explain a lot. Sitting through the lilo documentation might help too. Anyway, here's what the liloconfig script does: [setup a minimal /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo on it] dd if=/boot/mbr.b of=$disk bs=444 count=1 /sbin/activate $disk $partition Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
