hi ya keith
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed sarge from scratch onto a machine here and I got a
> message during the subsequent startuo sequence that was several screens
> full of 8 digit numbers followed by the message;
>
> "there are differences between the boot sector and it's backup"
if you mean your system boots funny or cannot boot, and you want to
be able to boot off hd again
and if you have the old /boot/boot.*
- first make a boot floppy or a 2nd disk for booting off of it
- you can erase the bad mbr info
a:> fdisk /mbr
- or -
lilo -u
- or -
- than try to fix the mbr on your main disk ( say its hda )
dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
( use boot.xxx where xxx is the 2nd to the largest number
( you have
c ya
alvin
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