On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:59:15AM -0400, Ian wrote: > I was in the middle of a HardHat install, and fdisk was able to partition > the disks. The problem is that I deleted all of the partitions on the > original disk, including sda9 and sda11, which store the SGI sash > bootloader and associated files. Without the bootloader, the system is > inoperable. I did not realize that those partitions contained it at that > time. You simply need to recreate a sgi partition table which is no problem with a current fdisk. That's all you need to make linux bootable from harddisk. This is kind of off-topic but I'd recommend switching to s.th. more recent than hardhat like debian or the rpms by H.J Lu on oss. Hardhat is way out of date. -- Guido