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Re: [Sheflug] lost mbr



On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 19:12, Ian W. Wright wrote:
> Hi Alec,

Alex, but never mind :^)

> Didn't get that far in this case. The machine died during the formatting of
> the linux partitions and now neither the linux or windows partitions are
> seen by the machine

Okay. To get back your DOS mbr, boot off a dos disk and do a 'fdisk
/mbr'. It would be worth doing this before continuing with the Linux
install.

> accessible' type message and fdisk from a RedHat boot floppy says that
> /dev/hda is not accessible after it has displayed several error messages
> saying it can't find track 0 during boot up.

That says dead hard drive to me, I'm afraid. Can you give us any more
detailed error messages? For example, does anything appear in the kernel
log (usually on one of the virtual terminals on these boot floppies)?

Cheers,

Alex.

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