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[NMLUG] Argghhh!!! I hosed my MBR
The only thing is, if your inodes that are messed up are part of the kernel,
you won't be able to boot from that kernel, since lilo won't be able to map
it correctly.
Hence the magic in automagically, when it works it is magic.
michael
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:53:29 -0800 (PST), Tim Emerick wrote
> That makes sense to me too. After I fixed the MBR, debian booted up
> as usual. There were some broken inodes which were fixed automagically.
>
> Tim
> --- James Hamilton <jamesh@swcp.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:28:11PM -0700, michael wrote:
> > > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:27:26 -0700, James Hamilton wrote
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > I meant fsck, I was just in windoze land.
> > > You would use fsck to fix your broken inodes on the failed startup.
> >
> > Agreed, makes sense :-)
> >
> > --
> >
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