bootstrap failure - how to fix bootblock?

From: Dan Kirkpatrick (dkirk@physics.syr.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 17 2002 - 12:28:55 EDT

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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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