Re: [vox] Dead Computer

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From: Ted Deppner <ted@MAPSpsyber.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:06:46 -0800
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On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 03:58:17PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> now I believe I have killed the boot loader or something, because if I set 
> the device to boot from either the hard drive or the CD-ROM, I get the same 
> error.  I set it to floppy and used Tom's Root Boot to fdisk the hard drive, 
> hoping to flag the hda1 partition as bootable, and then go from there, but 
> that didn't work out either.

Two thoughts...

Put the hard drive in a good computer and do the work there.

Make the CDROM hdc or hda and see if that works.  Some HDs (notably
Maxtor) aren't good about sharing a buss and sometimes walk all over a
slave unit.

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Ted Deppner
http://www.deppner.us/
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