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

[Ossama Othman <othman@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu>]

Hi,

> Here's a list of the files in /boot/
[snip]
> boot.0301
[snip]

Here is what the lilo manual says:

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LILO automatically makes backup copies when it overwrites boot sectors. 
They are named /boot/boot.<nnnn>, with <nnnn> corresponding to the device 
number, e.g.  0300  is /dev/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.
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You appear to have a /boot/boot.0301 file.  Have you tried:

	dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count

This has worked for me in the past.

-Ossama



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