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Hello everyone,

I am looking for advice concerning a Win95 partition that was nailed
by LILO during installation.  

The problem was caused by

lilo.conf:
  boot = /dev/hda1, rather than boot = /dev/hda

Now the partition appears as invalid media type.  I would guess that
only a small portion of the partition is corrupted and that most of the
data could be recovered.  Does anyone have suggestions as to how I can
recover some of the data or repair the corrupted partition?

Thanks,

Mitch

Quote:>I am looking for advice concerning a Win95 partition that was nailed
>by LILO during installation.  
>The problem was caused by
>lilo.conf:
>  boot = /dev/hda1, rather than boot = /dev/hda
>Now the partition appears as invalid media type.  I would guess that
>only a small portion of the partition is corrupted and that most of the
>data could be recovered.  Does anyone have suggestions as to how I can
>recover some of the data or repair the corrupted partition?
>Mitch

So, only the boot sector is overwritten. AFAIK nothing else.

Check the man page, there is an uninstall option for lilo. Check
carefully, it might be able to install the original boot sector of your
Win95 partition, and you're up and alive again.

These are just ideas, and I can'tr verify at the moment, so I would like to
see someone second them.

Hartmut.

Quote:>I am looking for advice concerning a Win95 partition that was nailed
>by LILO during installation.  

>The problem was caused by

>lilo.conf:
>  boot = /dev/hda1, rather than boot = /dev/hda

>Now the partition appears as invalid media type.  I would guess that
>only a small portion of the partition is corrupted and that most of the
>data could be recovered.  Does anyone have suggestions as to how I can
>recover some of the data or repair the corrupted partition?

For details see the LILO manual.

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Quote:

>Hello everyone,

>I am looking for advice concerning a Win95 partition that was nailed
>by LILO during installation.  

>The problem was caused by

>lilo.conf:
>  boot = /dev/hda1, rather than boot = /dev/hda

>Now the partition appears as invalid media type.  I would guess that
>only a small portion of the partition is corrupted and that most of the
>data could be recovered.  Does anyone have suggestions as to how I can
>recover some of the data or repair the corrupted partition?

>Thanks,

>Mitch

Boot with the Win95 rescue disk (you did make one didn't you?) and
from there type 'fdisk /mbr'.

Then you should be able to reboot into Linux (via floppy) and run
'lilo' with the corrected configuration.

David Efflandt/Elgin, IL USA

Thanks for the help everyone, I was able to uninstall LILO from the
partition without incident.

Mitch

Quote:>Use the lilo uninstall option to restore the old boot sector.
>Alternatively you can copy the backup (boot.0301) back by hand using
>"dd".

Peter

  Thanks for the help everyone, I was able to uninstall LILO from the
  partition without incident.

  Mitch

 How?