Re: Restoring destroyed partition table

1999-04-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On Tue, April 27 1999, Eran Tromer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |I know you already solved this by reinstalling, but in case others are |interested, here's a solution. I had to find one after a silly incident |involving a new harddisk and 'dd' seized at the wrong end. Thanks a lot for the pointers.

Re: Restoring destroyed partition table

1999-04-30 Thread Eran Tromer
Hello, Amos Shapira wrote: > Another way I heard about (but haven't tried) is to dd(1) the first > 512 bytes of the hard disk. That way you have a copy of both the > partition table and the boot sector. Assuming you save a copy in advance... Actually, LILO does half the job for you. If you ins

Re: Restoring destroyed partition table

1999-04-27 Thread Eran Tromer
Hello, Amos Shapira wrote: > I've just compiled a new kernel and when I tried to reboot it I got > messages like "can't find ... 03:02". Booting to the Debian rescue > disk and running fdisk I see that these partitions are simply gone. > The only one recognized is the Solaris partition. The fir

Re: Restoring destroyed partition table

1999-04-23 Thread Amos Shapira
On Tue, April 20 1999, Gaal Yahas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 06:53:44PM +0400, Amos Shapira wrote: | |> Does anyone know of a way for me to restore the partition entries |> without remembering the exact sizes? | |Ouch. I don't have a particularly clever suggestion, but as

Re: Restoring destroyed partition table

1999-04-20 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 06:53:44PM +0400, Amos Shapira wrote: > Does anyone know of a way for me to restore the partition entries > without remembering the exact sizes? Ouch. I don't have a particularly clever suggestion, but as a last resort try using dd with skip= and count=, pipe the output t

Restoring destroyed partition table

1999-04-20 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I've just compiled a new kernel and when I tried to reboot it I got messages like "can't find ... 03:02". Booting to the Debian rescue disk and running fdisk I see that these partitions are simply gone. The only one recognized is the Solaris partition. The first two entries were simply zero