Re: Invalid boot signature

[Sven Garbade <garbade@psy.uni-muenchen.de>]

Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> 
> What does cfdisk have to say about your disk geometry?
> --mike

Disk Drive: /dev/hda
Size: 10262568960 bytes
Heads: 255   Sectors per Track: 63   Cylinders: 1247

There are no error messages generated by cfdisk

By, Sven

> 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.