On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Mark Glassberg wrote:
> I can't uninstall lilo because I had symlinked /boot to a directory on
> the crashed disk.
Doh.
Umm... I think you might be up the proverbial creek without a paddle.
> I know that the partition was formatted as part of a Win95 install. I
> as
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Thomas Charron wrote:
> There is another alternative. Reboot on a command line boot disk, and
> do this:
>
> fdisk /MBR
That will, as the name implies, fix the MBR -- the Master Boot Record,
which contains the partition table and generic boot code.
The original poster ov
Quoting Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Mark Glassberg wrote:
> > I rewrote /etc/lilo.conf--incorrectly as it turned out--and ran
> lilo.
> > Lilo rewrote the boot sector of the msdos partition, not the mbr of
> the
> > drive.
> In short: I hope you have backups. :-(
>
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Mark Glassberg wrote:
> I rewrote /etc/lilo.conf--incorrectly as it turned out--and ran lilo.
> Lilo rewrote the boot sector of the msdos partition, not the mbr of the
> drive.
In short: I hope you have backups. :-(
The format of the PBR (Partition Boot Record) is applic
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 06:12:52PM +, Mark Glassberg wrote:
> ran lilo. Lilo rewrote the boot sector of the msdos partition, not the
> mbr of the drive. The partition is no longer readable. Lilo may well
> have made a copy of the boot sector before overwriting it...but the copy,
> if it exi
Hi,
Do you still have the kernel image somewhere else on your hard disk
besides the corrupted partition?
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