Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2372 mails)

[Matthew Johnson <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am hoping very much that your partition has been left alone...

This is something to try that may or may not work, use at your own risk
(although IMHO you have nothing left to lose...).

Boot from either a Windows CD or Windows boot floppy disk and run fdisk
/mbr

If this fixes it you will not be able to boot directly to Linux until you
use the Linux boot disk and choose the option to boot the installed system
(and re-run Lilo with the correct parameters).

Give this a try. If you need more information please tell us.

Matt

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Oliver Ob wrote:

>
> Hello Chodura and unorthodox friends :-)
>
> Problem is this:
> I booted using LILO with spelling mistake as "boot=/dev/hda1" instead of
> correct
> "boot/dev/hda2". Since that, I cannot access /dev/hda1 which is my DOS
> partition
> with valuable data.
>
> So, I tried to boot from CD and trief to mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/c and the
> error is:
> "/dev/hda1 has wrong major or minor number" whereas the fdisk partition
> table
> shows everything o.k. .
>
> Obviously, however, the partition table or the fat1 has been destroyed.
>
> What can I do here to rescue my files (/dev/hda1 has NOT been formatted
> since
> error occurence, so the files MUST be there).
>
> simply re-editting and re-starting LILO does no success.
>
> O.k. I will leave it to talents as you are.  hope that helps ;-)
>
> O
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