Re: Small faux pas with LILO
On Fri, 20 Aug, 1999 à 09:07:38PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 12:08:31PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > I installed Linux on /dev/hdb and inadvertantly set boot=/dev/hda1 instead
> > of /dev/hda in /etc/lilo.conf and now I'm having trouble booting that
> > partition (a Windows 95 partition). Have I done inrepairable damage to that
> > partition or can I recover from this boo boo?
> >
>
> I've made this mistake too!
>
> LILO should have backed up the boot sector of /dev/hda1 to
> /boot/boot.0301. So, this incantation of dd should get things back the
> way they were:
> dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1
>
lilo -u (or lilo -u /dev/hda1 if you've already modified your /etc/lilo.conf)
will restore your previous boot sector.
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