Re: Unable to boot
I actually want to get the data out of my RAID-5 system.... And, it is
not booting up since (I guess) the MBR is corrupt and it is not able
to boot from it....
Hence, I was thinking if there was any way I could get/write the MBR
to boot into my debian, I could probably see my data...
Do you think somethign like that is possible?
THanks,
Manudath
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:20:20 +0000 (GMT), Matt Johnson
<johnsonmlw@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- R G Cottrell <rossc@froggy.com.au> wrote:
> > Manudath Gurudatha wrote:
> >
> > >Can anyone tell me how to overwrite the MBR? My
> > Debian machine is
> > >screwed up and it gives an error similar to "L 80
> > 80 80..." while
> > >booting....
>
> To wipe the MBR will allow other OS's (like Windows)
> to boot, but not help you boot Debian. If this is what
> you want e.g. to boot into Windows, then you can use a
> windows 98 CD to boot, type cd \win98, then fdisk /mbr
>
> This will wipe your mbr - no good for linux, but fine
> for microsoft products.
>
> --
> Matt
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