Thanks my /home and ftp/pub partitions made it ok but root and swap are
bad. At lest none of the important stuff is gone and I made copies a
long time ago of things like rc.masq and samba.conf to my /home dir so
all should be ok.
Pixel wrote:
>
> Brook humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Thanks pixel actually what I've had to do so far is boot up with my
> > linux rescue disk. Start fdisk delete all the partitions and then guess
> > at were they were before. Anyway I got enough of it that I can mount
> > part of the root partition and the boot.0300 file is there now what do I
> > do with it.
>
> dd if=boot.0300 of=/dev/hda
>
> explaination: the first time you call "lilo", it creates a backup of your mbr.
>
> pb: if you had some extended partitions, it won't recover them, as the
> information is not on the mbr (first sector of disk)
