On Thursday 06 June 2002 12:09 am, Brian Parish wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 09:55, Jim Tarvid wrote: > > My guess is that the partition table got sprayed with bad data on power > > down. > > > > if one had a listing of partitions such as that provided by fdisk > > /dev/hda -l you should be able to rebuild the partition table. > > > > Of course having a copy of the MBR would make life easier > > > > dd if=/dev/hda of=backup-hda.mbr count=1 bs=512 > > Good idea. I'll do that for all my machines and spread copies around my > LAN. I presume that to restore the MBR from one of these backups, it's > just a matter of reversing the "if" and "of", or is there something else > required? >
That bit of code also restores the bootloader, which is OK if it hasn't changed. Just in case, it's always a good idea to keep a boot floppy as well. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com
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