I found a little something about restoring MBR's today after totally hosing one on a Compac Presario 5050 earlier this morning. In a nutshell, there is an 8MB drive as hda with win98 installed, the cdrom is at hdc and I added a second HD with Linux on it as hdd. My job was to restore windows to an 'as new' state and then update/patch it as required and add the second drive with Linux and allow dual booting. At any rate, I hosed the lilo.conf and then hosed the MBR by running LiLo and got the dreaded scrolling lines of 1's and 0's upon a reboot. I tried the 'fdisk /mbr' trick which did nothing and I started sweating =( After a few deep breaths, I poked around in the HOWTO's and found a LILO mini-howto... all is well again =) it seems that when you install lilo to the mbr, it creates a file under /boot - in my case boot.0300 which is your unmolested MBR in all it's glory... to restore it you use dd, like so: dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 a quick reboot and *viola*: windows startup screen I lost about 5 pounds worth of sweat over this today before i found the answer so, here's hoping somebody here can/will benefit from my little experience... -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
