Thank you for several answers to my request for information about copying an
entire filesystem. After this all, I found a HOWTO on the subject, as well.
I think I have succeeded in copying the filesystems off my old disk to my
new one. The system boots ok off a floppy prepared as describe in the
HOWTO. For various reasons, however, I changed the filesystem structure
on the disk. Now I have to install lilo on the new disk.
When I formatted the partition, I had not set the bootable flag. Now after
the fact, the copying, and everything, I discover this, and I ran fdisk,
changing this flag.
However, lilo fails still, with a message,
First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature
I found this message in the lilo manual, but I cannot see how to fix it. I
ran liloconfig, which I hope was not a mistake. I toggled the flag again.
No change to this message.
I am uncertain whether I have to run mbr now, or what. Perhaps this is the
problem.
Or what? Can I ask for a clue, again?
Alan Davis
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Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department)
AAA196, Box 10001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis
Saipan, MP 96950 15.16oN 145.7oE GMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
