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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

On 12/9/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> I also have two 2-3GB disks from which I can no longer boot into DOS, but
> they work fine for linux as slave drive, booting with loadlin.  They have
> bad boot sectors.  Can lilo be used with them as master (without DOS)?

Have you tried 'fdisk /mbr' in DOS? It will reinstall the master boot record,
which includes the DOS bootloader. I think I read somewhere that
cfdisk, even with the -z option, absolutely cannot create a partition table
if you do not already have a good one. You need to use Linux or DOS
fdisk (not cfdisk) or another partitioning tool.

David