Re: Problem with windows partition

[William Lacy <billy@swt.edu>]

Thanks Andrew- that worked.

Now that I have researched this I believe that grub was installed by Red
Hat (which was on the machine when I started) and pointed to the Linux partition
that I had overwritten- hence grub was stumped.

In any event I learned a lot and lilo -u /dev/hda1 worked!

Thanks a bunch!


Andrew Pounce wrote:
> By default lilo creates a backup of the boot sector in /boot 
>
> so if you use lilo -u or -U /dev/hda1 it should restore it... If you
> read thru the lilo man page it will tell you more... 
>
> Its rescued me on one or two occasions... 
>
> -- Andrew 
>
> On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 23:00, William Lacy wrote: 
> > I installed debian on a desktop computer and for some reason although I 
> > chose "make a boot floppy" the install script wrote "grub" the the mbr 
> > of /dev/hda.  I was stuck in a place with nothing but some debian cds, 
> > but I digress.  I tried to load lilo but I messed up and typed 
> > boot=/dev/hda1 instead of /dev/hda.  So apparently I lost my partition 
> > table on /dev/hda1 which had several extended partitions with win xp and 
> > God only knows what all.
> >
> > Any help on how to get my partition table back for /dev/hda1 would be 
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
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