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[NMLUG] Argghhh!!! I hosed my MBR
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:41:05PM -0700, michael wrote:
> You need to boot up from an install cd.
>
> Then switch your virtual terminal ato get a prompt.
>
> fdisk your partitions.
What exactly would you use fdisk for. The partitions are intact only the MBR
is broken. Last time I did this fdisk was unneeded.
> Then mount them. You will manually have to rebuild the directories if you
> have mount points.
> Then chroot to your partitions.
> Then re-run lilo in the chrooted environment.
>
> If you do not fdisk the partitions, your lilo will not work.
>
> michael
>
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 11:04:54 -0800 (PST), Tim Emerick wrote
> > I updated my Win98 partition on my dual boot debian/Windows machine
> > to Windows XP. I expected XP to take over the MBR but didn't
> > realize how difficult it was to have LILO take it all back. I'm now
> > stuck with a dead machine.
> >
> > Partititions are all intact, checked them with knoppix.
> >
> > I tried booting knoppix and following some directions on restoring
> > the MBR so that LILO could handle the bootup. Got lost since most
> > of the directions I could find were redhat related and I'm running
> > debian. I also got lost since everytime I tried to run lilo it was
> > looking at the knoppix generated /etc/lilo.conf that resided on the
> > ram disk.
> >
> > Found some generic linux instructions on running lilo from a virtual
> > terminal using the install CD (I used my Debian/Testing netinst CD).
> > Couldn't get lilo to run.
> >
> > I also tried popping in the Debian install disk and typing linux
> > root=/dev/hda1 and root=/dev/hda3. Bounced back an error about not being
> > able to mount the root.
> >
> > So, I'm pretty much at a loss. My lack of technical expertise is surely
> > hindering my efforts at getting this box back up and running.
> >
> > I've looked at some doc's that showed how to edit Windows XP's
> > boot.ini file to boot the linux partition but I prefer the lilo
> > setup I had.
> >
> > With all that said.....HELP!!!!!! I really need either dummy's
> > approach or a link to a dummy's approach.
> >
> > Here's my Partition info.
> > /dev/hda1 - 10MB - ext3 - /boot
> > /dev/hda2 - 256MB - swap
> > /dev/hda3 - 8GB - ext3 - /
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Tim Emerick
> > /dev/hda4 - 70GB - vfat - /c (windows XP fat32 partition)
> >
> >
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