I want to know if I have badblocks on my sdb5 HDD.

Jonas Norlander jonorland at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 09:25:27 UTC 2008


2008/11/21 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>:
>>> I have now zeroed the bootable flag on it using fdisk, so I can re-install
>>> the card and drive, and will see if its salvageable in the next day or so.
>>
>>What do the boot flag got to do with installing anything? If i
>>remember right the boot flag is used by DOS/windows to mark with
>>partition to boot from and i don't think any new OS today care about
>>it.
>>
>>/ Jonas
>
> The os's don't, but the bios still does.  The ASUS bios is, IMO, buggier than
> a 10 day old carcass.
>
> In this case, if I plug the JMicron pata card back in, and the bootable flag
> is set on that drive, that bios automatically wants to boot from it before
> looking for another bootable partition on the main board interface.  And that
> VERY effectively stops the boot when it gets as far as printing "GRUB" on the
> cleared screen, 30 seconds later the drive led goes off and the only response
> is to the hardware reset button.
>
> Yeah, buggy bios, and its the latest one that will boot.
>

OK!

Good to know. I never happend to me and i have several ASUS
motherboard but i never looked what flag i have on the partitions.

/ Jonas




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