On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:42:06PM -0400, Bob Glover wrote:
> Subject: NT Boot Sector Overwritten
> or Oh, what a doofus :-o
>
> As the title implies, I've overwritten the boot sector
> of my NT partition (512 bytes worth). The MBR is fine
> and Linux boots as expected. Is there a way
> to copy/restore the backup boot sector while running Linux.
> I ask this because, it I choose to boot NT it locks the
> whole machine up, so I can't go that route. The NT install
> disk (recovery option also does not work).
>
> How can I locate and copy the backup boot sector (not the MBR)
> back to sector zero of the NT parition using Linux?
Read the lilo man page. Especially the bit about uninstalling,
then run 'lilo -u /dev/hda'
(assuming hda is your hard drive)
Next read the Linux+NT mini-Howto :^)
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