Re: Disk Corruption

[<ajlewis2@intac.com>]

Jonathan Brandmeyer said:
>
> Done.  I should have recognized the size discrepancy.  My new partitions for
> hdb4 and hdb5 are:
> /dev/hdb4    3922 - 7299    type5    Extended
> /dev/hdb5    3922 - 4180    type83    Linux (unformatted)
>
> Also re-ran Lilo, and this did not solve the problem.  As the long string of
> "01 01 01 " is scrolling by, the hdd light is lit without thrashing => slow
> read of something, right?
>
> What if the boot sector for hda1 is causing problems somehow?  What happens
> if I toggle the boot flag on hda1 -> off?  Will that force the lilo-occupied
> hdb1 to be booted?  Does it affect the ability to boot WinXP?  Not that I
> can boot into windows right now, anyway.
>
> Even though we don't seem to be getting anywhere, I am grateful for your
> help.
>
> Jonathan

I didn't think that would help the problem, but at least it was something to fix.

I'm thinking there is another way to make sure that you are using the LILO
that is getting written.  Try writing it to a floppy.  Edit /etc/lilo.conf and
put

boot=/dev/fd0

in place of boot=/dev/hda

Then put a floppy in and run /sbin/lilo.  Leave the floppy in and boot.  If
that works, then you can figure out what to set for booting.

Does your lilo.conf say that boot=/dev/hda1?  Maybe that is the problem.  I
know you have xp and I'm not sure if writing it to /dev/hda instead of
/dev/hda1 would be a good idea.  Well, try the floppy thing and see what
happens with that.

How are you booting XP, btw?

Anita