Re: Invalid boot signature
On 10 Aug 2001 09:35:30 -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> Actually does running cfdisk show that the boot flag is on hda1? It may
> not be written to it yet was my guess. If it shows that it is there
> would be no harm in retrying to write the bootable flag to it to see if
> that fixes the problem.
>
> --mike
>
> On 10 Aug 2001 16:34:33 +0200, Sven Garbade wrote:
> > 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.
> >
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