Re: bad superblock recovery help?
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:41:37PM +1000, Serge Rey wrote:
> ...
>
> i tried a reboot, to see if i could get into the windows partition but
> when i selected that stanza in lilo, lilo hangs at "L?"
> (again, this used to work prior to this recent problem).
>
> i can boot into linux just fine.
That seems a bit odd... the lilo manual doesn't mention
an L? error condition, and booting linux ok would imply
that LILO loaded ok as well. Could be you've got something
configured incorrectly or in some bizarre way.
> i'm thinking something got hozed on hda1 during my recent cdburning
> session? but i'm not sure how to proceed. i was (perhaps stupidly)
> using the windows partition to store the images mastered under xcdroast
> - this seemed to cause no problems previously, but perhaps this is a
> possible source of my problem.
If you've got a windows bootdisk handy, and have DOS
fdisk.exe, you can blow away LILO and reset to a DOS
MBR. The command to do this is: FDISK /MBR . (That's
assuming there isn't a backup from before using LILO.)
Just make sure you still have a way to boot linux,
like another bootfloppy.
Well, I'd suggest taking a good look at the LILO docs
no matter what you do, and hope nothing got really
b0rken. (And if all else fails, reinstalling windows
is SOP anyway. ;)
HTH,
Mike McGuire
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