OT - NTLDR has me down

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jean-Pierre A. Radley" <appl at jpr.com>
To: "FilePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: OT - NTLDR has me down


> Fpmckinney at cs.com propounded (on Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:57:46PM -0400):
> | Thanks to y'all who responded to my cry for help, I am up and running.
> |
> |  I didn't mean to slight the expertise of the larger UNIX community, but
> | I have always been impressed with the grace and patience with which
> | the filepro group responds to dumb questions from duffers.
>
> I think that you, in turn, owe something this to this group, namely
> tell us just what you did to make the problem go bye-bye.

I agree.

Even thoug in this case it's sort of easy, obviously he's booting a NT/2K/XP 
boot block, which might happen any of several ways, so in order:
- remove any removable boot media (which might possibly include checking the 
bios for network boot settings and/or verify there isn't actually a 
pxe/dhcp/tftp boot server on the lan)
- verify the active fdisk partition is unix
- re-write the boot sector with a unix one to replace the NT/2K/XP one that 
somehow got on there

But even though in this case I beleive I know exactly what this is and how 
to fix it, I still always want to hear how a problem went away, _especially_ 
if unlike this time I spent any time trying to help solve it. Also it's just 
good sense to get it into the searchable archives for future reference.

Brian K. White    brian at aljex.com    http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR
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