You obviously have access to another computer and the 'net. I would see if there is some kind of diagnostic routine that would test the MBR (use Google, etc.) that you could boot and run off a floppy. Of course, the fact that you can't run bootmagic from floppy may mean you can't boot at all from floppy, have you tried? If that's the case, the bios settings may be screwed up. Look. Look anyway, that could still be the problem. If you have DOS or Windows on the hd, try the classic fdisk /mbr after booting from a dos/win boot floppy, and that should at least re-write it to something useful, if that's possible. After that, it's Norton--and you REALLY have to know what you're doing-- or format the drive and start over. Good Luck. (These things happen.) At 20:38 07/14/2002 -0400, Ed Harrison wrote:
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on Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:22:58 -0400 # Can you boot the system from a rescue disk, select "boot installed system", # then once booted run "lilo" to implement the lilo.conf?
Rescue disk (DVD) will boot the kernel.
# Does it report an error?
No errors reported.
# If not, do you have an old bios, that can't boot above the 1024 # cylinder limit, or do you have /boot mounted on a small /dev/hda1 # to get under the limit?
Worked fine until just recently, using Boot Magic from PowerQuest.
Now BootMagic from floppy will not run. With BM loaded in mbr, I get "Boot Magic loading.." and it quits.
I think it is the mbr, itself, but I rebuilt the partition table manually. It had errors, but after I fixed it I get the same result.
Know anything about grub. But if it is the mbr, that won't help either, I suppose.
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