On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:41 -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Thursday 16 August 2007 01:32 pm, Deephay wrote: > > I made a very stupid mistake two hours ago, I bought a new USB storage > > disk and I was trying to test the speed: > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 > > > > sadly I typed "sdb1" as "sda1" and that was the /boot partition, I > > realized it immediately, but it was too late.[...] > > Have you tried formatting the partition? You just wrote a series of "0"s > across the partition...not as files, as raw data. You wiped out the inode > tables, superblocks, etc.
As Mark wrote, first format /dev/sda1 using mkfs.ext3, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.reiserfs etc. - whichever filesystem you use(d) - and then mount it as /boot. After that you have to reinstall your kernel image(s) because this is what you have essentialy wiped out. The install scripts in the linux-image-* packages should then automatically recreate GRUB's configuration. Good luck! -- Krzysztof Lubanski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
