well, I figured it out myself.. here is menu.lst entry for winxp that
works fine here in case someone needs it:
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
I suspect the 'makeactive' command might have something to d
thanks to people that replied to email.
there are two hard disks:
/dev/sda is for Windows (two ntfs partitions: sda1, sda5)
/dev/sdb is Linux (various partitions, sdb1=Debian_/, sdb2=Solaris,
sdb3=linux_swap, sdb4=Debian_home)
I wanted to set sdb as primary boot disk and be able to choose Window
er, its ok, I managed to salvage system completely with this program:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
off to make 100 backups (all over the world) of MBR..
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 06:47:54AM -0700, orange wrote:
> can someone please help me recover Debian ext3 partiton (/)
> I tried booting windowsxp by typing some commands at boot prompt and
> it seems to have trashed (MBR?) linux partition.
> the other Linux partitions are fine (home).
>
> is there
orange wrote:
> can someone please help me recover Debian ext3 partiton (/)
> I tried booting windowsxp by typing some commands at boot prompt and
> it seems to have trashed (MBR?) linux partition.
> the other Linux partitions are fine (home).
>
> is there a tool that can help me recover /
>
> I th
can someone please help me recover Debian ext3 partiton (/)
I tried booting windowsxp by typing some commands at boot prompt and
it seems to have trashed (MBR?) linux partition.
the other Linux partitions are fine (home).
is there a tool that can help me recover /
I think I tried this:
map (hd0)
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