RE: Reboot failure after vacation!

["Matthew Tisch" <mbt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Hi, Klugers,
>I just returned from a trip overseas and turned on my pentium 166 system
>to start up LINUX (running from RH 6.1 on BSWare 6.1 CDROM) and got lots
>of errors which became less noisy and hopeless until I got to the prompt
>just before asking which OS I wanted to use when, after the usual delay,
>it starts printing 01 01 01 01 ... continuously.  It does so after several
>reboot attempts.  Fortunately I did make a backup diskette and am able to
>boot from it.  I'm guessing that my boot sector is bad but I'm not sure
>how to restore it.   I do not have a 'rescue' disk at this point.

I have a similar problem at home.  I dual boot on a Gateway Pentium Pro 200
between Win98 and Linux.  If I have been running Win98 for a while and do a
warm reboot, I'll get a screen full of 01 01 01 01 01's until I turn the
machine off.  If it goes on for too long, it can destroy the boot sector. If
I turn the machine off before rebooting, no problem.  (Unless, of course,
the boot sector is trashed.)



Matthew Tisch
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