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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> First the floppy controller failed on my Thinkpad 770E, then today the hard 
> drive controller is misbehaving.  (On its way out it corrupted the FAT table 
> but I fixed that in another computer).  I can boot this computer from a CD 
> and access the partitions and files (or, in another computer with good hard 
> drive and floppy drive controllers, boot directly from the same hard drive, 
> or boot from DOS or lilo floppy and then start BL on hard drive).  I also 
> have a non-booting 5GB hard drive to use here.
>
> I cloned the hard drive and both boot in the other computer and don't boot in 
> this one.  Very strange problem.

I repartitioned and reformatted this hard drive and it now boots in both 
computers, but the original Thinkpad 5GB drive has a dead boot sector so I 
would still like to boot (to DOS or with lilo) from a bootable CD or 
pcmcia flash card.  Do they have special boot sectors like FD and HD?
Or do I simply make an .iso of the few files put onto a hard drive by DOS 
'sys' command and burn to a CD?

Sindi