> Rohit saw fit to inform LI that:
>
> >> I ran Norton Antivirus and it removed LILO from MBR. I don't have the
> >> original Mandrake 7.0 CD. I haven't created a boot disk while
installation.
> >> So i downloaded rescue.img and rawrite from a mandrake 7.0 mirror site
and
> >> tried to create a boot disk but it doesn't seem to work. What do i do?
> >
> >You have done all that you could to destry your HDD information. Unless
> >you find some real low-level utility to extract your files from the HDD,
> >in my opinion there
> >is little that can be done.
>
> He _could_ create a boot floppy or get a boot floppy from somewhere and
> run fdisk/mbr
>
> That might help.
fdisk/mbr only replace mbr with PT. Download loadlin and one image file (eg:
zImage) then boot linux from DOS using
loadlin zImage root=/dev/hdax where hdax is your root partition.
Boot Linux, manually create /etc/lilo.conf (if not exists), then run lilo.
Regards,
John
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