Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can you still boot linux with a boot disk? I had a messed up partition > table at one stage (but not as messed up as your friend's) but linux > could still distinguish the partitions and read all of the data on both > windows and linux partitions (windows couldn't read anyting after > booting from a floppy). I didn't manage to restore the partition table > successfully, but I did back up all of my important stuff so I could > reformat and reinstall windows.
Interesting. No, we cannot boot with a boot disk. That's what we first tried. I suppose I should have indicated what has happened so far. We tried booting /dev/hda1, 2, 3... with an old slackware boot disk we found laying around here. Got it up with the debian's resc1440 floppy, and fdisk shows only one partition, around 520000 512-byte blocks. IOW, mostly free space. The owner of the box indicates that there was NO partition that size, but he thinks "C:" (the fat16 partition) was /dev/hda1 as the "new" one is shown to be. Thanks for your help, --Brian Butler
