Ok. The disks are tested ok with Westerns Digitals utilities, so now I'll just quit using the promise controller and use the std controller. Its only ata-66 instead og ata-100, but that wont make that much of a difference anyway when I'm going to use Linux softraid anyway. Thanks for you help On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Richard Barrington wrote: > Not really. lilo and grub alter the boot sectors, but linux fdisk > (cfdisk is better) just works with the partition tables. If you're > stuck,and want to put a standard boot sector on, you could get a disk > from www.bootdisks.org, or use a downloadable tool from your disk > manufacturer - most support "initialising" a new mbr. > > On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 08:31, Jens W. Skov - JS Consult wrote: > > > you could also > > > reinitialise the boot sector). > > > > Can that be done from linux fdisk? > > > > > > - Jens W. Skov - JS Consult > > - Phone: 45884077 / 23254077 > > - E-Mail: jens@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > - Web: http://www.jsconsult.dk http://jnet.dk > > - NEW ADDRESS FROM JULY 02: Rævehøjparken 58, 2800 Lyngby > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > - Jens W. Skov - JS Consult - Phone: 45884077 / 23254077 - E-Mail: jens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - Web: http://www.jsconsult.dk http://jnet.dk - NEW ADDRESS FROM JULY 02: Rævehøjparken 58, 2800 Lyngby