> when the old LILO bootloaded installed it used to back up the old > first sector of the disk it was installing in under /boot. > Hopefully GRUB does the same. > > I can see an interesting looking /boot/boot.b on my system which > might stand for "boot block". you may be able to dd that back onto > /dev/hda5 and just maybe that will work. have a look at the time > stamp on /boot/boot.b and see if it looks close to when you did > the grub install
boot.b seems to be a lilo thing (do a strings /boot/boot.b) unfortuneately grub does not seem to make a backup. Maybe you make a another reiserfs on a another similarly sized file system, and dd the the first block of that onto your destroyed filesystem, then try a reiserfsck on the result. (clutching at straw here though, I don't know how much info reiser puts in the first block) Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
