[ILUG] Recovering NT MBR post-lilo?

[JustinMacCarthy]

Run fdisk /mrb from a dos floppy??

Justin

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Feeney" <martin at tuatha.org>
To: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Recovering NT MBR post-lilo?


> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:41:18 Cormac McClean wrote:
>
> > Alternatively, would uninstalling lilo replace the pre-existing MBR,
> > or is that wishful thinking.
>
> In /boot, you should find a boot.0300. That's a backup of the boot sector
> before you ran lilo (assuming there wasn't already a boot.0300 there -
> check the date on it).
>
> You could just dd it back to /dev/hda and hope for the best (check the
> lilo docs for details).
>
> If your boot drive is not /dev/hda, the .0300 will be a different number.
>
> Martin.
>
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