On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > while getting ready to build a raid 1 array, i accidentally deleted > the /boot files. the partition is still there however and is still > flagged as boot partition. > > although i have a boot floppy for this machine, i could not retrieve > a backup of the /boot partition from another hard disk i have. in > a novice attempt to resolve this, i copied the /boot partition from > another machine and reboot. upon rebooting w/ the boot floppy, i > ran lilo to try to rebuild the MBR. lilo complains:
you CANNNOT copy /boot from one disk to another ... -- you just destroyed /boot on the other disk you copied onto and so its right, that it panics -- to recover ... - i assume the kernel from the other disk is the same as what oyu need on your current disk - i assume your floppy boots insert floppy and tell it "root=/dev/md1" or whatever you have as your / for your system - if you cannot boot off of floppy, insert a debian install floppy/cd or knoppix cd - manually build /dev/md0 ( if that is /boot ) - mdadm [options] /dev/hdaxx /dev/hdcxxx .. ( options would change depending on what the problem is ) - google for examples that matches your problem - mke2fs -j /dev/md0 - mount /dev/md0 /boot - copy the files from a working /boot onto the raid /boot - required files in /boot: vmlinuz map and any other files used by lilo.conf or (grub)menu.lst - run lilo or grub and reboot > > Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature correct > how can i fix my /boot partition so that the machine can boot without > the files in the boot or root partitions that originally were part > of this machine? /boot is NOT needed to boot ... you can "boot" off anything ( floppy, cd, network, ... ) / ( the rootfs ) must be working c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]