Re: Invalid boot signature
What does cfdisk have to say about your disk geometry?
--mike
On 10 Aug 2001 14:38:16 +0200, Sven Garbade wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> today I've deleted all Windows/DOS stuff on one of our Debian (Potato)
> Boxes. Then I rearranged the hard disk. I know looks like:
> size in MB
> hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 789.63
> hda5 Logical Linux 2097.45
> hda6 Logical Linux 2097.45
> hda7 Logical Linux ext2 16.46
> hda8 Logical Linux swap 131.61
> hda9 Logical Linux 5124.35
>
> When I run lilo, I got this error message:
>
> $:/sbin/lilo
> Added j
> Added n
> Added r *
> Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature
>
> What does this means?
> There are no problems while booting, the system runs fine. But I can't
> reconfigure lilo.
>
> Thanks, Sven
>
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