Re: [TCLUG:18079] clobbered partition table

[<andy@theasis.com>]

I don't think this is the case if you use the /mbr option... every time
windoze clobbers lilo, I use this to fix it, then boot from floppy to
run /sbin/lilo.
Andy

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Ben Kochie wrote:

> don't use windows fdisk... NO NO NO.. bad idea.. dos fdisk clears the
> first block of every partiton it creates.. it does not just modify the
> partition table.. it wipes out the FAT area and flags it so windows knows
> it needs to be formated.. BAD idea.. (this has been teh behavior since dos
> 6.0)
> 
> Thank You,
>         Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)
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> On Tue, 23 May 2000, Shawn Roske wrote:
> 
> > If the ext2 partitions aren't too precious, get a win98 bootdisk with
> > fdisk.exe.
> > Boot off of it and try messing with the partitions, either by removing one
> > or two
> > of them, or by doing a
> > 
> > a:\fdisk /mbr
> > 
> >     - I think that's what it was....
> > 
> > You should then be able to boot into the windows partition, then try loadlin
> > or
> > something of that sort to get into the linux partitions...
> > 
> > Good Luck, Shawn
> > 
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