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Boot Sector corrupted
Name: Ken Smith Date: November 15, 2002 at 17:12:56 Pacific OS: Unixware 7.1 CPU/Ram: Dual PIII 1Ghz/256MB
Comment:
We have multiple Compaq Proliant DL-380 servers running UNIXware 7.1 and a government software application running on top of that. Out of all of these servers, we have two that will intermittently not bootup. It never makes it to the Unixware splash screen so we can't even get to the boot prompt to come up in single user mode. The only way to fix it is to overwrite the MBR using the fdisk utility. The server has an Integrated Raid Controller and the logical drive is split into two partitions. One is a 39MB Dos partition with the Smartstart utilities on it and the other is a 32GB Unix partition.
The Unix partition is marked as active. When the boot problem occurs, we can still boot to the Dos partition by pressing F10 which is a feature installed with the Smartstart CD. We are trying to figure out how the MBR is getting corrupted. Any suggestions?
Summary: If it's not booting, maybe you can just reinstall the boot sector. Typically, there is a boot sector installer, called "installboot", and a boot sector image. Check your man pages for correct syntax...
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