On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 21:12 -0400, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/13/05, Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > Deboo ^ wrote: > > > I accideantally fdisked my linux hard disk and deleted all > > > partitions, created one single solaris partition. > > > > If you ever ran lilo on a root partition of the disk, then it probably saved > > a copy of the mbr in the /boot directory which can be manually restored with > > a disk editor (for example), although I'm not sure about the multiple disk > > scenario you describe, or about grub. > > Does this mean that lilo is better than grub due to this feature? Is > there such an option configurable in grub? > > > If all else fails, there are a number of ways to deduce and restore the correct > > partition table entries, either manually via inspection of the disk contents, > > or using various automatic recovery tools, or even by trial and error. > > I'll be interested to know these number of ways, if you could put > these in short, later. No! Write it down and hang it on the wall above the console! So when you look up in horror after realizing what you've done, the fix will be the first thing you see. Much easier and faster than running a program to scan the disk and figure out the partitions. -- Glenn English ghe@slsware.com GPG ID: D0D7FF20
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