I upgraded the disk in my home PC a few weeks back. I made partitions
the same size as the old ones, then ran "dd if=/dev/olddisk
of=/dev/newdisk" for each of them. A little messing with lilo.conf, and
linux started booting up again.
However, I can't get windows booting. I was warned that it could be
because I didn't have a /boot partition last time (windows was hda1,
linux / was hda2 - new disk has windows hda2, linux /boot hda1).
So, I deleted my new windows partition and my boot partition, and
recreated them so that even though /boot still started at cylinder 1, it
was hda2, and windows was hda1 again.
However, that's not booting either. I get nothing when I try and boot
it - not even a broken windows bootloader. I still have the old disk
hanging around, as I expected this to happen...any ideas how I fix it?
John
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