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I have only 3 partitions:
1. windows
2. windows data
3. slackware
hdc2 is extended partition(don't know what it means) and hdc5 is windows data partition, which i can access using slackware without problems.
as u can see:
hdc1 Boot Primary NTFS 7205.35
hdc5 Logical NTFS [^C] 27003.60
hdc6 Logical Linux ReiserFS 5848.18
all is working perfectly in slackware, as cfdisk shows.
I would like to save data.
Checking my disk, the start of the extended partition is also incremented by one from the previous partition, start point is the same as the first logical partition, and end point is same as the end of the last logical partition.
It would seem that is not the problem.
yeah, looks like the best way is to fix mbr, but my cdrom is broken, and i haven't windows cd either. but i have a usb flash, which is not working quite correctly. i guess i need some kind of small sized rescue cd and then boot it from usb.
Here's a link to my post: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=551575
Take a look at "man lilo.conf"
If you add the "ignore-table" option to the Windows section and rerun lilo again does Windows boot? If you get an error is it the same one?
# Windows bootable partition config begins
ignore-table
other = /dev/hdc1
label = Windows
table = /dev/hdc
# Windows bootable partition config ends
But i got the same message.
'man lilo.conf' says that i need to write 'ignore-table' under global section, is it alright to put it under windows section?
Both lilo and grub save a good copy of the mbr when installed.
For lilo it is at '/boot/boot.0300'.
For grub it is at '/boot/grub/mbr.hda.2717'
Those numbers will probably be different for you.
You can use dd to restore these backups if you want. Not sure if that will solve the problem. I mean, it'll restore what you had before you installed lilo or grub.
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'Invalid partition table Error loading operating system Missing operating system' - does not look good
Sorry my lilo is a bit rusty as I mostly use grub now.
Okay one last try.
Try the "ignore-table" in the global section, I don't know if you need to remove or leave the "table = /dev/hdc" in the Windows section.
There is also a "fix-table" option but read the man page before trying that.
So, i guess i just need to fix my mbr to boot windows partition. I'll try windows cd next week, but now i got only 128mb empty usb stick on broken fs and no idea how to run a boot cd from it.
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