[Wolves] Argh

[Old Dan]

John J. Smith wrote:
> sparkes wrote:
>> On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 18:43, John J. Smith wrote:
>>
>>> I tried the Debian installer to put a version of the OS on /dev/hdd1 (I have a few old IDE
>>> drives to use for alternative OS's). Now its screwed up the partition table on hda. Rescue
>>> disk for mandrake cant find the root partition... Any ideas?
>>> I just want a couple of bits of stuff off the main disk (bookmarks, 
>>> mail sent etc), any ideas?
>>>   
>>
>> assuming you are using lilo as your boot manager you need to boot into
>> debian and add the extra OS's to the /etc/lilo.conf file
>>  
>>
> And how exactly do I boot into debian? I'll restate. It borked my 
> bootable hard disk.
> 
> Mandrake rescue wouldnt even mount /dev/hda1 it didnt see it. Have to 
> have an /etc/lilo.conf
> in order to run lilo on it, right?
Stick the debian CD in to boot from then:

linux root=/dev/hdd1  (or bf24 root=dev/hdd1, whatever kernel you chose 
to install...) should boot you into debian.

Dunno otherwise.  What does cfdisk list for /dev/hda?

-- 
Dan