Re: MBR -- Getting tiresome. I really am sorry! (was Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR)

work then ... I assume you can boot from floppy. If you don't have auto detect, you can read the disk type during floppy boot and use those .. --Jon. Thank you all for still taking a notice of me (this is the 4th letter concerning the MBR!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

On Sun, 10 May 1998, Tristan Day wrote: Thanks to all for all the help and ideas, but it still won't work: here's what has gone wrong: snip 'lilo -u /dev/hda' says boot sector of /dev/hda does not have a lilo signature 'lilo -u' runs fine and says that it has restored the original MBR

Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

Thanks to all for all the help and ideas, but it still won't work: here's what has gone wrong: The DOS 'fdisk /MBR' ran with no errors, but made no difference to bootup. 'lilo -u /dev/hda' says boot sector of /dev/hda does not have a lilo signature 'lilo -u' runs fine and says that it has

Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 01:23:48PM +0100, Tristan Day wrote: Thanks to all for all the help and ideas, but it still won't work: here's what has gone wrong: Can you state the problem again? I missed your earlier posts. The DOS 'fdisk /MBR' ran with no errors, but made no difference to bootup

Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

/hda, 0800 is /dev/sda, etc. Those backups can be used to restore the old MBR if no easier method is available. The commands are dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 or dd if=/boot/boot.0800 of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1 respectively. -- You appear

Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

Sorry, that should have been: dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MBR -- Getting tiresome. I really am sorry! (was Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR)

-- that's the NTFS partition containing NT My system _did_ work before -- honest!! Thank you all for still taking a notice of me (this is the 4th letter concerning the MBR!) Tristan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Still can't sort out MBR -- Linux and NT

When I load from a boot disk (created by format /s at dos prompt in Win95), fdisk doesn't work because it doesn't exist, thus fdisk /MBR doesn't work. If I try this in linux, it says MBR not found tried in lower case too =( Tristan -- one unhappy WinNT4 and Debian dual-booter

Re: Still can't sort out MBR -- Linux and NT

On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 05:54:08PM +0100, Tristan Day wrote: When I load from a boot disk (created by format /s at dos prompt in Win95), fdisk doesn't work because it doesn't exist, thus fdisk /MBR doesn't work. If I try this in linux, it says MBR not found tried in lower case too

Re: Still can't sort out MBR -- Linux and NT

You may have already come across this link for multibooting Linux and ???. http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~sedmison/directboot.html -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

. It says booting Win95, then returns to the LILO prompt. The problem remains, I can't seem to overwrite the MBR, not with LILO, not with fdisk. I found out that the Windows partition was FAT32, but surely I bet FAT32 is the problem. It is not DOS-compatible, so existing disk utilities cannot

Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can one find information about /sbin/activate? I have it on my system (Debian 1.2.18), but no man pages, How-To, or other documentation. It does not give any meaningful response to activate -h or activate --help. What does this program do? According to

Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

-Original Message- From: Dale Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, October 29, 1997 9:26 PM Subject: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR. Hello. I had a weird problem last night, installing Debian 1.3* on a friends PC

Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

is removed. Hmmm. Boot via Win95 rescue disk and fdisk /mbr. Reboot and LILO's STILL there. Tried this more times than I can recall.. LILO won't die. System Commander reported some wacky things about the MBR, saying things were pretty well screwed with it. The problem remains, I can't seem

Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

Dale Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, I guess I'm throwing this out to you guys, is this a Windows problem? A Debian problem? A LILO problem? A FAT32 problem? I can't point out a solution but I can tell you that it's probably not related specifically to Debian or to Linux, as I have had

Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

I last installed Debian) LILO doesn't always install on the MBR, but in my case in /dev/hda1. What does your /etc/lilo.conf look like? You could also try to write a new MBR with /sbin/activate /dev/hda 1 or whichever partition Win95's on. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages

Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

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Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

I don't have an awsome computer like that, but I experianced problems when installing LILO on the MBR with win95. Win95 lost all its long filenames! I'd would try installing LILO on the root partition of Linux. -Paul On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Dale Harrison wrote: Hello. I had a weird problem

Re: putting lilo on the mbr, help please

option was successful, but when I add a section for win95 in lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo it complains that lilo must reside on the mbr (i assume that win95 has taken the mbr). How can I put lilo back on the mbr? You need to use the 'boot' command, I believe. Something like boot = /dev

putting lilo on the mbr, help please

add a section for win95 in lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo it complains that lilo must reside on the mbr (i assume that win95 has taken the mbr). How can I put lilo back on the mbr? Any help is greatly appreciated

Help! Messed up my MBR (PROBLEM SOLVED!!!)

Thanks goes out to all who responded to my plea for help. After reading everyones mail and falling back to a phrase we use in the Military when all else fails, read the instructions! I have my P90 back up and going again! I checked out my boot directory and found the following files: boot.0300

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Brian Hutchinson wrote: Here is some more information on my sad state! Maybe I'll be the first to answer the simplest of your questions: The dos mbr can be replaced with dos fdisk: c:\= fdisk /mbr ...RickM... Yeah

Help! Messed up my MBR (PART III)

/mbr to wipe out lilo on the mbr (/dev/hda) but what about lilo on /dev/hda1? Have I trashed my DOS partiton information? What can I do now? I did run fdisk and the partition information looked correct. It knew the partition was all dos and it was bootable/primary. Thanks again, Brian

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Hutchinson) wrote: Here is some more information on my sad state! [All information zapped...] From what you've written, I gather that you inadvertedly told LILO to overwrite the boot sector (_not_ the MBR) of your DOS partition. DOS keeps some important bookkeeping

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

information zapped...] From what you've written, I gather that you inadvertedly told LILO to overwrite the boot sector (_not_ the MBR) of your DOS partition. DOS keeps some important bookkeeping information in it's boot sector, among which the size of the partition, the number of sectors in a cluster

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

Gertjan Klein wrote: From what you've written, I gather that you inadvertedly told LILO to overwrite the boot sector (_not_ the MBR) of your DOS partition. DOS keeps some important bookkeeping information in it's boot sector, among which the size of the partition, the number of sectors

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR (PART III)

thought so. I did that once before. Several nice people have e-mailed me and told me to do a fdisk /mbr to wipe out lilo on the mbr (/dev/hda) but what about lilo on /dev/hda1? Have I trashed my DOS partiton information? What can I do now? Lilo most likely backed it up. Boot back into your

Help! Messed up my MBR, don't have backup!

tried using lilo to forget about my linux drive and just boot dos but I think I ended up messing things up. I tried: /etc/lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda other=/dev/hda1 table=/dev/hda label=dos When I boot the machine I get LILO then unexpected EOF loading dos. Is there any way I can rebuild my MBR so

Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

Here is some more information on my sad state! I thought no problem, I'll just make a dos boot floppy. wrong. When I do a C: I can get to the drive but when I try to do a dir or anything I get: Invalid media type reading drive C The machine I built the kernel for (the 386) is giving me

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Brian Hutchinson wrote: Here is some more information on my sad state! Maybe I'll be the first to answer the simplest of your questions: The dos mbr can be replaced with dos fdisk: c:\= fdisk /mbr ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR, don't have backup!

Brian -- For a quick fix, a provided you have a backup to boot dos, reboot under drive a: for dos, get onto the c: drive, and run fdisk /mbr. This will restore the c: disk so that it will boot dos automatically. For future reference, whenever you rebuild the kernel, it's a good idea

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