On Fri, 20 Aug, 1999 à 09:07:38PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 12:08:31PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > 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 > lilo -u (or lilo -u /dev/hda1 if you've already modified your /etc/lilo.conf) will restore your previous boot sector.
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