On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 12:08:31PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi, > > I have a PC with two hard drives, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb > > I installed Linux on /dev/hdb and inadvertantly set boot=/dev/hda1 instead > of /dev/hda in /etc/lilo.conf and now I'm having trouble booting that > partition (a Windows 95 partition). Have I done inrepairable damage to that > partition or can I recover from this boo boo? >
I've made this mistake too! LILO should have backed up the boot sector of /dev/hda1 to /boot/boot.0301. So, this incantation of dd should get things back the way they were: dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
