Re: system reboots before booting
Kent West said:
> If your boot sector is physically damaged, there's nothing you can do
> about it except to replace the drive or boot off some other medium (such
> as a boot floppy). But as I mentioned above, that's not real likely
> (unless it's a six year old drive; I think drives tended to "park" their
> heads at the boot sector when shutting down, and various events could
> cause the head to do a crash landing during the parking stage).
Ultimately I've re-installed Debian (for the fourth or seventh time this
year) and it seems to be rebooting fine now (at least the second part of
the install is working--the bit just after you pop the CD out and boot
from the harddrive).
Thanks for all your suggestions.
emma
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Emma Jane Hogbin
Xtrinsic
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