No Bios signiture in Partition sector

Hayat · April 10, 2009, 10:49am

HI Guys, I changed my BIos battry and now Im getting mount -p : no BIos Signiture in partition sector on /dev/hd0

Help please

maschoen · April 10, 2009, 6:00pm

Have you booted into the BIOS screens and looked around?

Hayat · April 11, 2009, 5:20am

Thanks maschoen, I have the exact same settings on Bioss that I had prior to changing the Bioss battry

maschoen · April 11, 2009, 6:18am

Well that is strange. If you have a bootable floppy, then you can start the hard disk driver manually and peek at the first sector. I’d suggest starting with fdisk. That may tell you something.

Hayat · April 11, 2009, 7:17pm

Cheers maschoen, it ended up being “defining HDD readings manually in BIos”. GUess I didn’t look close enought

CrankSoftware · April 14, 2009, 2:18am

This error is ussually because the last 2 bytes of block 0 of the hard disk aren’t set to 0x55 0xAA. It ussually gets erased when someone uses “dd” to erase thier disk.

If you do a “fdisk /dev/hd0 info” you’ll see the signature on the last line.