[TriLUG] screwed disk

[jason at monsterjam.org]

well, Im pretty sure i ran the 
lilo -M /dev/hda
after I ran the dd command

oh well, so to my next question.. is there any way to get the files off the disk somehow?
theres a few id like to salvage.

Jason




On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:33:14PM -0400, Robert Dale wrote:
> On 4/5/07, jason at monsterjam.org <jason at monsterjam.org> wrote:
> >http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?p=191912
> >will tell the story sofar.. now Ive got a totally unusable computer..
> >
> >any suggestions?
> >should
> >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
> >have wiped out my partition table ??
> 
> Yup.  Byte 446 starts the primary partitions.
> 
> But usually one would run some sort of bootloader command immediately
> after which would have restored the MBR.  My guess is that you
> rebooted instead.  This is why it's a good idea to back up your MBR
> before making changes to it.
> 
> I'm curious why you just didn't set up grub to boot xandros since it
> was already working.  I had no idea anyone still used lilo.
> 
> As for "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(3,1) " I think you could have run rdev to tell the
> kernel where root was.
> 
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