Re: reinstalling boot blocks

Hi all,

Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>
> I want to reinstall safely boot blocks as the installer does, how can
> I do it? best from the CD-ROM
>
> let me summarize the situation:
> - I had 6.4 not booting correctly (partition boot size issue)
> - I upgraded 6.5, and all works, boots fine
> - actually it did not work, certain things make the kernel crash (but
> can't report properly, I can't produce a dmesg, etc...... wifi makes a
> kernel panic)
> - after two or three panics the machine does not boot anymore, I did
> run fsck
>
> It looks early crashing, like reverting to the previous situation. I
> wonder if the filesystem may corrupt that way?

I resorted in "upgrading" in place, from 6.5 to 6.5 again, this forced
reinstall.. and the laptop boots again fine :)

Smart installer! After all, overwriting what was just installed should
not do big harm.

Riccardo