Re: system reboots before booting
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:46:16AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> 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).
I'm sorry this was necessary... The fourth or seventh time? You
reinstall debian quite a lot, then.
David
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