Quoting Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Mark Glassberg wrote:
> > I rewrote /etc/lilo.conf--incorrectly as it turned out--and ran
> lilo.
> > Lilo rewrote the boot sector of the msdos partition, not the mbr of
> the
> > drive.
> In short: I hope you have backups. :-(
> The format of the PBR (Partition Boot Record) is
> application-specific.
> For an MS-DOS filesystem, I believe that would be such details as the
> DOS
> bootstrap code, and the location of the FATs and the root directory.
There is another alternative. Reboot on a command line boot disk, and do
this:
fdisk /MBR
This will reformat ONLY the MBR of the boot drive. Then your fudged, becouse
you cant get to Linux any more, but this can get you into windows so you can
possibly download a rescue disk that can get you back into your linux box, so
you can fix lilo, or possibly allow you to use Loadlin to load linux directly
from Win32.
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Thomas Charron
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