on Sun, May 26, 2002, Russ Pitman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have two hard drives, hda and hdb. I wiped the MBR on /dev/hdb not > realizing that it would cause the boot of /dev/hda to fail while it was > still in the chain.
What are you running on the systems? Is this a dual-boot system, or debian-only? If the first, run FDISK /MBR under DOS. If the latter, I'm a bit perplexed. Check if any /dev/hdb partitions are marked bootable, try removing this flag. > With /dev/hdb switched off /dev/hda boots fine, but I need to be able > to access /dev/hdb to transfe all/most of the files over to /dev/hda. > > Is it possible to rebuild the MBR on /dev/hdb without destroying the > filesystem. Yes. > Using grub as bootloader, on sid uptodate, if that is helpfull. > > Thanks, hopefully; Post your /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss/
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