hi nikhil
There are software's like partition magic ,which has
an option of saving your current MBR and loading
that file whenever something goes wrong.
I dont think you had saved your MBR before,if
you had you could have restored it.
Did you try mounting the c: drive from linux?
bye
vinu
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:48:36 +0530
Nikhil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> hi
> tried to install suse6.3 from april's chip CD , i had 2
> hard-disks(4GB+1
> GB) and installed it on 2nd hard-disk of 1GB, and chose
> to write LILO on
> MBR. linux was booting fine , but when trying to boot in
> dos it gives this
> error: unexpected EOF.
> from dos fdisk we can see hard-disk1 having C: primary
> dos and d: logical ,
> however we can only access d: when booting from dos
> system disk. accessing
> c: gives bad media error. to restore MBR we tried
> fdisk/mbr from dos system
> disk , but no luck, tried lilo -u /dev/hdb1 also, but
> again same problem ,
> LILO propmt still shows at boot-time and can only load
> linux. is there any
> other way to restore the MBR? if not restored , how can i
> save the data on
> hard-disk 1 ??
> pls help
>
> regards
>
>
>
>
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