On Aug 27, Ian Monroe wrote: > I have a simular problem as discussed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03539.html > That message appears to be the last in the thread, though it is hard to > tell. > > I was stupid and typed 'grub-install /dev/hda1' instead of 'grub-install > /dev/hda' on my Debian/Windows 98 machine. Windows is on hda, Debian on > hdb. >From what you report I would say, some essential fields of the boot sector were overwritten. Fortunately there exists a backup boot sector. Under linux try this: # Save the image of the corrupted dos bootsector in case something # gets wrong: dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/root/boot.hda1 count=1 # Get the backup bootsector: dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/root/backupboot.hda1 count=1 skip=6 # Replace boot sector by its backup: dd if=/root/backupboot.hda1 of=/dev/hda1 count=1 For the same procedure under windows see this: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q247/5/75.ASP Jochen _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
