Re: No partition table
Thanks for the reply. I ran gpart on the drive, and the result
matches what Lilo wrote to /boot/boot.0300 , so I didn't rewrite
the partition table. The first partition is marked bootable.
Can you offer any other suggestions?
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, dman wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 07:45:37AM -0600, Russ Cook wrote:
> | I have a 30 GB Maxtor hard drive, with a 15 MB boot partition as
> | the first partition. This is followed by root and swap.
> |
> | Apparently, I have somehow corrupted my partition table, because
> | on boot I get the message NO PT, HIT ANY KEY TO CONTINUE
> |
> | When I do so, Lilo responds with LIL- and hangs. I can still boot
> | from floppy, but only the older 2.2.X kernels.
> |
> | I have read the Large Disk How-To, but can't figure out what's
> | wrong. Can anyone help?
>
> Use gpart to determine what the partition table was, then use (c)fdisk
> to re-create it.
>
> -D
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