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). Thanks for all your suggestions. emma -- Emma Jane Hogbin Xtrinsic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
