Subject: Re: Making a disk bootable
To: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/09/2005 16:55:39
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 06:46:22AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> OK, that helped, but not in the way you might expect!
>
> After comparing the mbr contents with /usr/mdec/mbr and finding only
> a small difference (looks like a list of sectors or something),
Yes - the last bytes are indeed the table
> I decided to reboot once again to get the exact error message. And I
> noticed that the BIOS was booting from HDD-1 (wd1) rather than HDD-0!
Actually checking the disk contents reduces the number of things that
might be wrong - making it easier to find the real problem.
And if they are wrong - they are easu to fix!
David
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