Hard disk boot sector invalid - can't boot after HD inst

[gabriel_007]

I've got a notebook with 30gb HD. After zero-filling the entire drive I tried installing puppy to a 1GB ext3 partition (I want Puppy to be my only OS on this machine). It went good, according to the installer (including the installation of GRUB into MBR). However, when I reboot I get the message:

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hard disk boot sector invalid

Any ideas?

[sunburnt]

You'll need to provide more info than this, just not enough to go on...

P.S. This forum is for "HowTo" tutorials, not Qs & problems

[gabriel_007]

I'm sorry, it seems I can't delete my post now - my mistake, when I searched for similar problems I noted that there were many QA topics in the Howto forum. Perhaps someone could move it than.

More information? Well... I don't really know what to look for. This is all the information I get. I can only press h to try again (no results) or boot Puppy from a CD. No errors are reported during the installation, I chose only the defaults (except for MBR, as advised by The Creator).

[sunburnt]

Yes... many posts out of place, Flash?

Run gparted or fpart & make sure the ext3 partition is marked as "bootable".
This shouldn't be a problem, but just checking all the bases.
Boot from CD & try to access the ext3 partition & copy a file to it & read it.
Short of anyone else helping, try reinstalling it again...

[gabriel_007]

I'm sorry again - it can be deleted now, I followed your advice and installed puppy. Thank you very much