Help! I messed up my MBR
I was trying out Debian on my main comp and I foolishly wrecked my MBR.
I'm not sure exactly what the problem is or how to fix it, so I'll give you the details and let you come to your own conclusions.
dev-hdb is my Linux hard disk (80GB)
dev-hdb1 is my 36GB SuSE 9.2 parbreastion. This is the one with all my work data on it and the one I am trying to save!
dev-hdb2 is a 40GB FAT32 parbreastion, for me to transfer files between Linux and Windows.
dev-hdb3 is a 1GB swap parbreastion.
Here's what I did: 1) Ran cfdisk for the Debian install. Deleteddev-hdb2 anddev-hdb3. 2) Reparbreastioned it into the same size, butdev-hdb2 is a Linux parbreastion anddev-hdb3 is still swap.dev-hdb1 was untouched. 3) Toggled boot flag for bothdev-hdb1 anddev-hdb2. 4) Installed the LILO bootloader intodev-hdb.
mjt" schrieb I think it was the newbie in this case. no harddisk indev-hda? That's possible. Also it might be that it's not relevant here.dev...
I thought that this configuration would give me an option between booting SuSE and Debian. It didn't, and only boots into Debian.
I'm pretty sure my data indev-hdb1 is still there, I just can't access it...especially since Debian can't handle Reiser FS (the FS of my SuSE parbreastion).
I've tried deleting the Debian parbreastion entirely, but that was when I learnt that the MBR would be untouched and now it is even worse...it just points the bootup to a blank parbreastion and the kernel panics :-(
If I deleted the LILO MBR somehow entirely, would the comp automatically boot to the first parbreastion by default?
Please advise...
Thanks.