On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 05:00:01PM -0600, 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.
Huh!? boot-floppies comes with grub now? I thought it was lilo. | I was stuck in a place with nothing but some debian cds, If you really did have grub, fire up the command line (press 'c' at the menu) and root (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 and you'll have 'doze up and running. (adjust the numbers for your partition scheme, the box that is from has hda1-/boot hda2-'doze hda3-(extended) hda4-/ hda5-(swap)) (stick this in /boot/grub/menu.lst with an appropriate title and you're all set) | 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. gpart is a great tool for figureing out the partition table from the disk. (You haven't been trying to use the system, have you? Don't! You don't want a system modifying the disk while it still doesn't know the proper partition info) Find another machine somewhere and stick the binary on a floppy that is readable by the installer kernel (probably ext2 only). Boot the installer and switch to vc2 (Alt-Ctl-F2) without picking anything in the menuds. Run gpart (from your floppy) and write down what it thinks your partitions are. Then run cfdisk and create the partition table. Reboot. http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ -D -- If Microsoft would build a car... ... Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the car windows, shut it off, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
