[ale] Hard Drive "boot sector" Question

[Jim Kinney]

Since a different drive in the same machone would install and boot fone its
not funky bios on drive.
Since system booted to a failure to find notice the mbr is also fine. Most
likely the conflict is the old hidden partition that has a non standard half
sector start point.
It will likely work ok if the drive gets zeroed out through that full
partition.
If not it may be one of those fedora preferred machines. :-)

On May 23, 2010 9:45 AM, "Michael Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

Whoa. I had totally forgotten about those.  There were a few other systems
that did similar things, but instead of putting BIOS on the HD, they'd have
a minimal BIOS in chip format, and the SETUP program would be on floppy or
something.  Of course, most people lost or damaged those floppies...



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> On May 23, 2010 6:31 AM, "Greg Clifton" <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dude, you may be screwed...
GC

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