In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Hutchinson) wrote: > > > Here is some more information on my sad state!
I'm coming into this late. Mail me if any of this does not make sence!! I'm assuming MS-DOS was on your primary C: drive partition. >[All information zapped...] > >>From what you've written, I gather that you inadvertedly told LILO to >overwrite the boot sector (_not_ the MBR) of your DOS partition. DOS >keeps some important bookkeeping information in it's boot sector, among >which the size of the partition, the number of sectors in a cluster, >etc. LILO has overwritten this information, so DOS can no longer boot >from this partition. > >I know of no easy solution to this problem. There are no tools that I >know of, that rebuild a DOS bootsector without also destroying all >information on the partition. The simplest thing to do is to reformat >the DOS partition, Jesus christ!!!! I can't believe I'm hearing this from a Linux group! Never, never format! Guys, come on! I've been through losing FAT and HPFS boot sectors several times. If your MBR is shot, the only thing I ever needed the do was ms-dos fdisk: 'fdisk /mbr' I would leave this as a last resort, as a I do not know exactingly what it does. Boot sectors can be a little tricky if you do not have a copy (I now keep copies : > ) FAT is a alot easier then HPFS. This would work out best....format a partition that is the very close in size to your C: drive. Lets say it's partiton 6 you would then read out that bootsector (sda scsi drive, hda IDE drive) dd if=/dev/sda6 of=bootsec.bin bs=512 count=1 now write that to the C: drive (normally partition 2. Check with linux fdisk) dd if=bootsec.bin of=/dev/sda2 bs=512 count=1 At this point you MAY be able to boot the C:. If not you should be able to use a DOS boot floppy and access the C:. You should then be able to do a : sys a: c: to bootstrap the C: drive. This is assuming you can somehow get to Linux and dd. If you have to, you can even use a floppy disks bootsector to get you going, but you would have to edit it first with a hex edit to correct the size (if I remember correctly). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave 'Kill a Cop' Cinege (aka Psychopath #3) --- Super Genius at Large "Shelter me from the powder in the finger......Cover me from the thought that pulled the trigger..." Neil Young http://www.psychosis.com/ Libertarian Party 1-800-682-1776 http://www.lp.org/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
