Re: crash at partition check during boot

1997-11-22 Thread Joel N. Weber II
Remove hdb. Remove hda and move hdb to hda. Swap hda and hdb. Try hda in another machine. Boot dos(ick!), run FDISK, then run FDISK /MBR. I tried removinnng hdb, and it did not help. Given that, swapping the drives did not seem likely to be helpful. I had also done fdisk /mbr, and

Re: crash at partition check during boot

1997-11-22 Thread Adam Heath
-Original Message- From: Joel N. Weber II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, November 21, 1997 2:37 PM Subject: crash at partition check during boot >I am attempting to get a debian rescue disk to boot. The disk seems to boot >fine when trie

crash at partition check during boot

1997-11-21 Thread Joel N. Weber II
I am attempting to get a debian rescue disk to boot. The disk seems to boot fine when tried on another machine. I've also tried writing the same image to a different floppy, and that does not change the error. The machine crashes when after saying `partition check' and then `hda:'. If I specify