I deleted partitions on one hdd and now get "kernel panic..." on other. Any ideas?

rose_bud4201 · 01-01-2004, 09:29 AM

heheh

cooooool...yeah, I wouldn't be using windows now if I wasn't going through severe withdrawl from Icewind Dale II and Neverwinter... ^_^

cheers!

thegeekster · 06-12-2004, 07:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by thegeekster
...If you want to save your lilo mbr to a file and be able to copy it back, you will need to change the 'bs=512' parameter to 'bs=496' (I think), as that is the actual size of the mbr. 512 bytes works for Windows, but that's it

Correction on the bs=496................It should be "bs=446" to copy just the lilo boot code...........the last 66 bytes is the partition table (64 bytes) and boot code signature (2 bytes)..........

Here's some info on the MBR: Understanding and Working with the MBR

ringwraith · 06-12-2004, 07:41 AM

Neverwinter had a linux client that worked. Used to have it at bioware website. :-)

thegeekster · 06-12-2004, 11:17 AM

Actually, it wouldn't be hard to copy the whole 512 bytes of the mbr to file with 'dd' and then only copy the first 446 bytes of the file back to the mbr to restore the boot code without overwriting the partition table.................It would be real simple to make a script to do that.......

Let's see.......a script called mbr:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#*******************************************************************************
# Name: mbr

case $1 in
  copy )
    dd if=/dev/hda of=$2 count=1 bs=512  ;;
  restore )
    dd if=$2 of=/dev/hda count=1 bs=446  ;;
  * )
    echo "Usage: $0 copy|restore FILE  ;;
esac