On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 03:07, 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" > > It went on to load happily, but I don't get this on other machines and > the thing was installed only half an hour prior to this. > > What would cause this, and what is the correct tool to deal with it? > Better would be an indication of what I should be reading to learn about > this. > > Can anybody advise?
I'm not an expert in this field, but it sounds like this message is coming from the bootloader - lilo or grub. Is this message appearing before any kernel boot messages? I'm guessing that when lilo/grub installs itself it makes a copy somewhere safe for some reason, and that either the boot sector or the "save" sector of your hard-drive has been corrupted somehow. The bootloader is checking that all is well on boot, and has (correctly) determined that either the boot sector or its saved copy has changed. >From the fact that bootup works, I suspect it is the backup that is corrupted. Reinstalling your bootloader might fix this; try "man lilo" or "man grub" respectively. Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
