bootstrap failure - how to fix bootblock?

From: Dan Kirkpatrick <dkirk_at_physics.syr.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:28:55 -0400

I have a DEC Alpha machine that use to run DEC unix/tru64... now it's
running RedHat Linux 7.0 for alpha and the disk is dying... so I put in a
new hard drive and copied everything over to the new disk with dump/restore.
Now on boot, it says bootstrap failure... block 0 of dka0.0.0.1001.0 is not
a valid boot block.

What's the magic way to create the boot block as well?
It's running Linux now so I don't have 'disklabel' and the original disk
lost it's boot block in trying to copy it over to the new disk :(

Thanks for any help!
-Dan

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Dan Kirkpatrick dkirk_at_physics.syr.edu
Computer Systems Manager
Department of Physics
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
http://www.physics.syr.edu/help/ Fax:(315) 443-9103
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