Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release)

Trever L. Adams (trever_Adams@bigfoot.com)
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:57:42 -0500


Patrizio Bruno wrote:

> I think that your linux's partition has not been overwritten, but only the MBR
> of your disk, so you probably just need to reinstall lilo. Insert your
> installation bootdisk into your pc, then skip all the setup stuff, but the
> choose of the partition where you want to install and the source from where
> you want to install, then select just the lilo configuration (bootconfiguration
> I mean), complete that step and reboot your machine, lilo will'be there again.
>
> P.
>
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Trever L. Adams wrote:

I hate to tell you this, but you couldn't be more wrong. My MBR was
fine. Lilo was fine and ran fine. The kernel even booted. The problem
was my ext2 partition was scrambled but good (over 4 hours trying to fix
it and answer all the questions that fsck threw out). The ext2 drive
lost a lot of data and suddenly had windows stuff all over it (yes, just
like Mike, I had ttf fonts and other such things).

Trever

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