On Monday 14 February 2005 12:39, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: > On Saturday, somehow my partition table got destroyed. Today, I learned > about gpart from the very nice Partition-Rescue-HOWTO. Gpart will guess > the partition table based on the actual disk structure, so you can give > cylinder numbers to recreate the partitions in the right places with > fdisk. In this way, I was able to mount my root partition and read > files. But I am having trouble restoring the rest, and I can't boot off > the disk yet. So does anybody know of some system file that might have > my the addresses of my old partitions written in it so I don't have to > guess anymore? I use Debian. Thanks. > Nick If you ran lilo during the install, lilo should have made a back-up copy of the sector it wrote to. This would usually be the MBR. This back-up would be saved in /boot normally. I'm using grub, however and I can't find anything that looks like a saved boot sector. I also run debian so maybe this hasn't helped.
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