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My trusty nine year old machine has finally bitten the dust. It was originally a windows machine but was converted to dual boot with two disks. The current linux disk ...
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- 09-25-2008 #1Just Joined!
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Transplanted disk won't boot
My trusty nine year old machine has finally bitten the dust. It was originally a windows machine but was converted to dual boot with two disks. The current linux disk is a about a year old. In an attempt to regain my system I have transplanted the Linux disk into another machine as the sole disk.
It will not boot. I suspect this is because I do not have the bootloader installed on to the MBR. I am using mandriva 2008.
Can anone advise how I fix this problem?
- 09-25-2008 #2Linux Enthusiast
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Use SuperGrubCd. It can make any patition bootable.
- 09-25-2008 #3Super Moderator
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SuperGRUB CD will re-install Boot Loader in MBR but if problem remains, post exact error message here. What does machine display at startup?
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- 09-25-2008 #4Just Joined!
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I have yet to try the CD. It requires some fiddling as my only CD burner is on the malfunctioning machine. I need to swap it to this one.
However I do not get an error message as such.
It gets as far as the message saying "verifying DMA pool data" and hangs.
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