Booting from an imaged HD

I need a little help remembering things. One night at the meeting we
made an image of a debian install that Greg made. I imaged the install
then Fielder and I recreated the partitions and reimaged the disks.
After we reimaged them we had to issue a command that I cannot remember.
I hope he's reading this and remembers.

When I look at the partitions in fdisk I see that the first created
partition has a '+' symbol by it, what does this mean and how do I move
it to the second partition /dev/hda2? It is not the bootable flag that
is the '*' symbol which is already on the 2nd partition, where it should
be.

Looking at one of the systems that I have with debian already installed
and working through fdisk the partitions are setup this way.

/dev/hda1 swap
/dev/hda2 /boot * +
/dev/hda3 /

Looking at one of the imaged drives, it looks this way:

/dev/hda1 swap +
/dev/hda2 /boot *
/dev/hda3 /

The '+' is on the swap, does this matter? What is the significance of
the '+'?

Another thing, if I boot using the debian HD that works with my imaged
drive as master on the second ide channel, I can run 'lilo -M /dev/hdc'
and it will write a MBR onto that drive.

If I boot using a bootable rescue CD that I have and try to issue the
same command it tells me that the drive is read-only. I think what
Fielder and I were issuing was the command that overrode this error.

Thanks for any ideas,

Jon

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Received on Tue Apr 13 19:06:39 2004