On Tuesday 12 July 2005 06:38, Timothy Murphy wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Would you believe that both hda and hdb have a star in the boot >> column when fdisk is handed a p? No? But they do... I would >> assume that the way back to sanity would be an 'fdisk -mbr >> /dev/hdb'? > >Doesn't sound to me as though that would help. >In any case, what do you mean by saying that >hda and hdb have stars in the boot column? >Should that be hda1 and hdb1? > Correct, my typo. >In any case, you can turn this off with fdisk. >(Try "m for Help" in fdisk.) I'll move it all to hda1 and then try it, thanks. > >-- >Timothy Murphy >e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie >tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 >s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
