Yes! That worked! I'm typing this message in Windows.
Some really should add this answer to the FAQ or some sort of
documentation. It is quite a scare when it happens.
Thank you all very much,
Ian Monroe
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> 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
>
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