on Sun, May 26, 2002, Russ Pitman (rjp@belle.apana.org.au) wrote:
> I have two hard drives, hda and hdb. I wiped the MBR on /dev/hdb not
> realizing that it would cause the boot of /dev/hda to fail while it was
> still in the chain.
What are you running on the systems? Is this a dual-boot system, or
debian-only?
If the first, run FDISK /MBR under DOS.
If the latter, I'm a bit perplexed. Check if any /dev/hdb partitions
are marked bootable, try removing this flag.
> With /dev/hdb switched off /dev/hda boots fine, but I need to be able
> to access /dev/hdb to transfe all/most of the files over to /dev/hda.
>
> Is it possible to rebuild the MBR on /dev/hdb without destroying the
> filesystem.
Yes.
> Using grub as bootloader, on sid uptodate, if that is helpfull.
>
> Thanks, hopefully;
Post your /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
Peace.
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