[ale] compaq servers and dd

[Yu, Jerry]

if you'd like to back where you were, you'd use undo opton for lilo itself. 
lilo -u|-U /dev/sda
man lilo for more details.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Rod Young [SMTP:development at combiz.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 11, 2001 9:47 AM
> To:	ale at ale.org
> Subject:	[ale] compaq servers and dd
> 
> I have an old compaq prosignia 300. A P150 class machine that has a
> partition (sda4) that is labeled compaq.
> Now that I have installed lilo the BIOS does not come up. One book
> suggests using dd to copy the original boot sector saved in the file
> system.
> 
> The example given is for ide.
> dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=dev/hda bs=446 count=1
> 
> If I want to use this for scsi would i use the following?
> dd=/boot/boot.0800 of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1
> 
> this assumes that the location of the file is /boot/boot.0800. Is the
> byte count correct?
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