[ale] My boot sector looks dead.

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

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On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Mike Kachline wrote:

> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:52:51 -0500
> From: Mike Kachline <kachline at medept17.coon.gatech.edu>
> To: Ben Phillips <pynk at cc.gatech.edu>, ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] My boot sector looks dead.
> Reply-To: Mike Kachline <kachline at cc.gatech.edu>
> 
> 	Given that you've got LILO installed in your boot sector, the way I've
> always gotten through this problem is to boot my trusty DOS 6.22 boot disk and
> "fdisk /mbr", then boot/root into Linux and re-install LILO. This won't blow
> away your partitions, but it'll get rid of any defunct LILO in your MBR.
> 
> 	<BTW. If anyone else knows of a good *linux* way to do "fdisk /mbr",
> please post! I would really love to know. >
> 
	From my experience the method you've described is the easiest way
provided you have a DOS boot disk with fdisk on it handy... As for a Linux
way to do the same... Speaking from Debian-ville, when you install LILO it
makes a copy of the the boot sector and stores it in /boot as
boot.<Major><Minor> so my boot sector for my first partition on my first
IDE drive is stored as /boot/boot.0301... If memory serves me right you can
copy this back to the drive using dd if you know the right command line
options... The file itself is 512 bytes...

	Respectfully,
	Jeremy T. Bouse
	Sr. System Administrator

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