On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Michael Trausch wrote:
> > So it's the time to learn how to make your own boot/root/rescue
> > disks. At that point you'll be fully independent from m$.
> I have no problem but one, in doing that. My floppy drive is dying, and
> it's OK for reading disks, but I can't write a damn thing with it...
> there's something wrong with the heads. And, as for the other computers,
> they all have floppy problems of their own. I need money.
Money... I understand you here more than you can believe. But a
floppy drive is really cheap (a regular one, not some kind of super floppy
drive which sees regular floppies as well). Else, you can do the disk
images, even mount them - there is a feature of the kernel to enable this,
so maybe a kernel recompile will be required. This way you can do some
tests. Than you archive the images with zip - very common for both dos
and Linux - and copy the volumes on msdos formatted floppies. Than you go
to some friend, at work, or somewhere where there is a floppy drive
available and unzip the images than rawrite/dd them. Back home you test
the results. If all goes well, than you label them and store in a safe
place.
> I ran and installed this partition loader. Oops... forgot to install LILO
> on /dev/hda3... =( ... luckily, I have a DOS version of dd and I saved the
> first 512 bytes of /dev/hda... Anyway, then I did that, and reinstalled
> the bootloader... it worked, but it said that the Linux partition was
> illegally partitioned.... It said that the Linux partition was 17
> cylinders over the end of the hard disk. OK, I thought, we'll fix that.
> WRONG.
Actually here you need some extended documentations about
partitions and boot records. I'm not a wise ass. I need them too.
Else I stick with fdisk /mbr in dos/win when it comes to restore the MBR.
And Linux fdisk in a dispreate try to fix partitions. I don't go for
direct access because that is a senzitive area.
> I found the option to manually change the sectors (I didn't remember the
> cylinder thing then)... fsck reported a difference of sectors, telling the
> old value and the new value.... So I changed it to the old value (the
> "illegal" one in DOS) and it worked after taking a half-hour to fsck the
> hard disk, and fix the thousands (I kid thee not) of errors that it found
> towards the end of the drive.
Glad you fixed it finally. The conclusion will be like thy not
play with dos stuff when it comes to delicate things.
> ::grr:: stupid mistake...
Shit happens :)
Raider
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``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
