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Hardisk will not boot

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From: Graham Daveney
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 00:00
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Hi Guys,

I just put a new hard disk in the system and transferred all the data over to
the new disk.

The problem is now that I cannot get the hardisk to boot, I can boot both Linux
and DOS from a floppy. During bootup floppy A: is detected, and after that C:
should be detected and booted from, but nothing.

I have performed a dd to zero the first 512 bytes of the two DOS partitions.

Here is a copy of my fdisk -l command.

Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 6232 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot  Begin   Start     End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1           1       1     813  409720+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2   *     814     814    1017  102816    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda3        1018    1018    1148   66024   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4        1024    1149    6232 2562336   83  Linux native
Partition 4 does not start on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 0, 1)


Any advice or pointers much appreciated.


Regards
Graham
graham@daveney.matra.com.au



P.S. I have read the Large-Disk mini-howto and it didnt seem to help me too 
much.
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From: graham@daveney.matra.com.au (Graham Daveney)
Subject: Hardisk will not boot
Date: 1997/09/09
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