Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR
What about a plain bootdisk. It should have a simple text editor on it
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On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Benjamin Zhou wrote:
>Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:14:05 -0400
>From: Benjamin Zhou <bfzhou@hotmail.com>
>To: soundray@ic.ac.uk, debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR
>Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I tried all the possible combinations mentioned in the response, none of
>them works. I also tried with a grub bootdisk, but it lists a few
>choices, none of them works. It seems that I have to have a working linux
>box to do edit to a config file on the grub disk, which can not be
>accessed from within Win2k.
>
>any more suggestions, thanks a loooot for your time.
>
>Ben
>
>>From: Rolf Heckemann
>>Reply-To: soundray@ic.ac.uk
>>To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
>>Subject: Re: possible to restore damaged Lilo in MBR
>>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:37:56 +0100
>>
>>On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:37:30PM -0700, Mike Alborn wrote:
>> > > After reinstalled win2k, I can no longer access
>> > > my existing Linux installation. Sadly, I didn't create a boot disk.
>> >
>> > I don't know if this will work out of w2k, but it's worth a shot.
>Note this
>> > will only work if you can boot the machine from a floppy, and if you
>know
>> > the location of your root partition (/dev/hda1 etc)
>> >
>> > - First, go to a debian mirror site, say
>> >
>> >http://mirror.direct.ca/pub/linux/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-20
>1-04-15/images-1.44/
>> >
>> > and get the file called rescue.bin
>> >
>> > - Head to mirror.direct.ca/pub/liunx/debian/tools and get
>rawrite1.zip or
>> > rawrite2.zip (these are programs to let you do a dd from dos.)
>> >
>> > - unpack rawrite and use it to dump the rescue.bin image onto a blank
>floppy.
>> > - Reboot the machine from the floppy at the boot: prompt, type
>> > rescue root= hit F1/F3 for help.
>> >
>> > -Once the machine boots, mount the boot partition (if you have a
>seperate one),
>> > set up your /etc/lilo.conf (if needed),invoke /sbin/lilo, and restart
>the
>> > machine from the hard disk.
>> >
>> > I use a similar method whenever my MBR gets trashed, except I have a
>Mandrake
>> > CD lying around, which works along the same lines.
>> >
>> > BTW, if you don't know the location of your root partition, and you
>can find
>> > a Mandrake CD or something that works similarly, the CD has a
>self-contained
>> > installation on it, allowing you to mount filesystems and determine
>which one's
>> > the root.
>> >
>> > > thanks a lot for any tip.
>> >
>> > No prob. Hope this does the trick.
>>
>>It probably will - I have been through this exact procedure a few
>>times. However, I recommend having a look at grub. If you create a
>>grub boot disk, you have a fast and flexible way of booting different
>>Linux kernels and other OS's, no matter where they reside on your hard
>>disk(s). Grub will even let you have reiserfs on your root and boot
>>partitions (don't know if LILO is ready for that yet).
>>
>>To Benjamin Zhou: I can make a grub bootdisk image and email it to you
>>if you like (it's 48 kB gzipped).
>>
>>All the best
>>
>>Rolf
>>
>>
>>--
>>Rolf Heckemann
>>
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