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corrupt MBR?
Name: Brian Date: December 7, 2003 at 11:30:21 Pacific OS: Slack 9.1 / win xp pro CPU/Ram: 1.4 Ghz 256 Mb
Comment:
ok here is my problem I recently reinstalled slackware 9.1 on my computer i also have windows XP pro installed as well. The problem is that now when i start my computer insted of the normal boot loader it just scrolls 1010101010101010101010 all over the screen. I think it may be a problem with the MBR is there anyway to overwrite the corrupted data?
Name: Brian Date: December 7, 2003 at 18:56:43 Pacific
Reply:
nevermind I fixed it
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Response Number 2
Name: linuxxnoob Date: December 8, 2003 at 02:34:17 Pacific
Reply:
well geez how did you do it? what was wrong?i got a slackware distro on the way, and i've heard the instruction manual comes with 2 words! "Good" and "luck" !!!!
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Response Number 3
Name: 3Dave Date: December 8, 2003 at 03:46:20 Pacific
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Often adding "linear" to your lilo.conf and writing it back to your MBR or setting your hard drive to LBA mode in your BIOS fixes this.
Summary: Michael, A similar problem happened to me yesterday. If you used LILO it should have saved a backup copy of the MBR in /boot (or /etc), named boot.NNNN. The number corresponds to the number of the de...
Summary: it is safer to install to the first sector that way if u want to do away with linux or change distros the mbr will not be corrupted and u'll still be able to boot ur windows partition. i assume ur dua...
Summary: With Windows 2000 you can boot using the Windows 2000 installation CD and use the R command to go to the Recovery Console. Once there this command will fix the MBR: fixmbr That has always worked for...
Name: Brian
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