Non-bootable hard drive
by mfoley from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6JEDS)
I ran out of space on my computer, so I installed a new 2TB Western Digital "Red" drive, partitioned, formatted, restored from backup, did the "mount --bind", chroot, lilo ... but it wouldn't boot. I tried an older backup, same thing. I even scratch installed from the Slackware 15.0 .iso, then again from 14.2 letting the setup allocate swap space, root partition, install lilo, MBR, etc. Nada. It always just hung after the BIOS splash screen.
Finally, after many hours wasted, I went to the store and bought a new 2TB Western Digital "Blue" drive (cheaper than RED), did the partition, format, restore and voila!, it booted just fine, less than 1 hour, mostly waiting for the restore.
Any idea what happened to the "Red" drive? Could I have done something? I seem to be able to read/write this drive just fine, but no booting. I suppose I could use it in a nn-booting RAID, but I hate to hang onto a drive I might accidentally forget about and stick into a new computer as the boot drive.
What if I 'dd' zeros to the starting sectors?
Other (better) ideas?
Finally, after many hours wasted, I went to the store and bought a new 2TB Western Digital "Blue" drive (cheaper than RED), did the partition, format, restore and voila!, it booted just fine, less than 1 hour, mostly waiting for the restore.
Any idea what happened to the "Red" drive? Could I have done something? I seem to be able to read/write this drive just fine, but no booting. I suppose I could use it in a nn-booting RAID, but I hate to hang onto a drive I might accidentally forget about and stick into a new computer as the boot drive.
What if I 'dd' zeros to the starting sectors?
Other (better) ideas?