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Re: How can sarge survive a Windows reinstall?



On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:17:44PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:24:44PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:37:51PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:33:23AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > 
> > > sarge does not have a rescue mode. I've written one, but it's still a
> > > bit experimental and came too late for sarge.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]
> > 
> > Thanks. Colin.  That message will saved me a lot of futile tries.
> > 
> > Now I have two questions.  First, an earlier one,
> > 
> > How do I make a sarge boot floppy?  I don't think I had that option
> > when I originally installed sarge long long ago.
> 
> I managed to use mkboot to make a boot floppy.  Unfortunately. it doesn't work.
> I gather from the kernel panic that it can't read my root partition.
> HGowever, the root partition is perfectly readablw when I boot form the BMR
Of course, I meant MBR                                                    ^^^

> on my hard disk.
> 
> This is ridiculous.  Is it really impossible boot a sarge system after the MBR
> has been clobbered -- without a complete reinstall?
> Everything I've tried so far has failed.
> 
> -- hendrik
> 
> 
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