[RULE] HDD Failure

[James Miller]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, david jamison wrote:

> I dont know whether it is appropriate to post this on RULE mailing list
> but am doing so in case someone else has the same problem in the
> future.  If these postings are inappropriate please say so!
>
> I took the opportuninty to upgrade the hard disk on my RULE box from 2Gb
> to 10Gb and all seemed well disc recognised by autodetect in BIOS and
> the install went OK absolutely no strange happenings or errors.
>
> When I do the final reboot the box hangs completely when usinging LILO I
> get the capital letter L of LILO and a flashing cursor and nothing else.
>
> I have a suspicion that the HDD may be faulty in some way but how to
> diagnose what is going on?

Sounds to me like maybe the mbr didn't copy correctly.  First thing I'd
try to do is boot from other media (did you make a rescue floppy? a RH or
Slinky CD?), then mount and chroot into the system and run /sbin/lilo.  I
would think that should fix any sort of mbr problem.

James

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