On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:46:16AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Kent West said: > > If your boot sector is physically damaged, there's nothing you can do > > about it except to replace the drive or boot off some other medium (such > > as a boot floppy). But as I mentioned above, that's not real likely > > (unless it's a six year old drive; I think drives tended to "park" their > > heads at the boot sector when shutting down, and various events could > > cause the head to do a crash landing during the parking stage). > > Ultimately I've re-installed Debian (for the fourth or seventh time this > year) and it seems to be rebooting fine now (at least the second part of > the install is working--the bit just after you pop the CD out and boot > from the harddrive).
I'm sorry this was necessary... The fourth or seventh time? You reinstall debian quite a lot, then. David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
