By default lilo creates a backup of the boot sector in /boot so if you use lilo -u or -U /dev/hda1 it should restore it... If you read thru the lilo man page it will tell you more...
Its rescued me on one or two occasions... -- Andrew On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 23:00, William Lacy wrote: > I installed debian on a desktop computer and for some reason although I > chose "make a boot floppy" the install script wrote "grub" the the mbr > of /dev/hda. I was stuck in a place with nothing but some debian cds, > but I digress. I tried to load lilo but I messed up and typed > boot=/dev/hda1 instead of /dev/hda. So apparently I lost my partition > table on /dev/hda1 which had several extended partitions with win xp and > God only knows what all. > > Any help on how to get my partition table back for /dev/hda1 would be > greatly appreciated. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
