From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:51:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:50:53 -0500 Received: from sls.lcs.mit.edu ([18.27.0.167]:4070 "EHLO sls.lcs.mit.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:50:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3A773734.BE3D0455@sls.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:50:44 -0500 From: I Lee Hetherington Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18-4.smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vaidy Sunderam CC: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Ruined boot sector on X20/W2K In-Reply-To: <200101302136.QAA24923@dasher.cs.utk.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org If Mandrake used LILO to install, there very well might be a backup in /boot/boot.0800 or something like that. You might want to consult the LILO documentation and/or a net search to see if they say how to restore this (probably using dd). If you have real W2K media, it has boot floppies and a CD. You can boot from floppy to access the CD, and then run recovery mode. It might be able to fix this up. Then again, it might demand that you had made an emergency recovery disk from within W2K, something I learned the hard way once. --Lee Hetherington - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/