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Booting into linux
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| Gwen Morse 2006-04-20, 7:05 pm |
| When I boot into linux, I get a message that the Boot sector and its
backup don't match. I suspect that this may be because I ghosted an
old drive onto a new, larger drive and then had to toggle the new
drive partition to be bootable.
Is there any way to fix this? It signficantly slows down the time it
takes me to boot into linux.
Gwen
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| Ivan Marsh 2006-04-20, 7:05 pm |
| On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:47:24 -0400, Gwen Morse wrote:
> When I boot into linux, I get a message that the Boot sector and its
> backup don't match. I suspect that this may be because I ghosted an old
> drive onto a new, larger drive and then had to toggle the new drive
> partition to be bootable.
>
> Is there any way to fix this? It signficantly slows down the time it
> takes me to boot into linux.
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> Gwen
That depends on which boot loader you're using (lilo, grub?). I suspect
simply re-writing the boot sector would repair it.
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| Sandgroper 2006-04-20, 7:05 pm |
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"Gwen Morse" <goldmooneachna@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8bga425koqna9nq1sm56ht1ml9cjglb4qc@
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> When I boot into linux, I get a message that the Boot sector and its
> backup don't match. I suspect that this may be because I ghosted an
> old drive onto a new, larger drive and then had to toggle the new
> drive partition to be bootable.
>
> Is there any way to fix this? It signficantly slows down the time it
> takes me to boot into linux.
>
If you are running grub as the bootloader then you can re-check and also
re-install grub by using these commands
/sbin/grub-install -- recheck /dev/hd [ boot disk ]
/sbin/grub-install /dev/hd [boot disk ]
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| Gwen Morse 2006-04-30, 7:13 pm |
| On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:36:15 +0800, "Sandgroper"
<steveray@KNICKERSiinet.net.au> wrote:
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>"Gwen Morse" <goldmooneachna@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:8bga425koqna9nq1sm56ht1ml9cjglb4qc@
4ax.com...
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>If you are running grub as the bootloader then you can re-check and also
>re-install grub by using these commands
>/sbin/grub-install -- recheck /dev/hd [ boot disk ]
>/sbin/grub-install /dev/hd [boot disk ]
I ran both these commands, but, I still get the same delay (and same
error message) each time I boot into linux. Was there something more I
needed to do to get the recheck/reinstall to actually stick?
I'm running grub as my boot loader. I just upgraded to FC5 about 2
days ago.
Gwen
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| Some Other Somebody Else 2006-05-01, 1:14 am |
| On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:03:04 -0400, Gwen Morse
<goldmooneachna@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:36:15 +0800, "Sandgroper"
><steveray@KNICKERSiinet.net.au> wrote:
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>I ran both these commands, but, I still get the same delay (and same
>error message) each time I boot into linux. Was there something more I
>needed to do to get the recheck/reinstall to actually stick?
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>I'm running grub as my boot loader. I just upgraded to FC5 about 2
>days ago.
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>Gwen
The only times I have seen that boot-sector-versus-backup message it
has been in association with fsck.vfat. In any case, vfat or not, it
sounds like something fsck-related rather than grub-related. Has fsck
been run with repairs as applicable against all filesystems? And/or,
does the associated partition table look right in fdisk?
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