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SubjectRe: Invalid partition table, 1st entry [OFFTOPIC]
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 02:11:06PM -0400, John Kacur wrote:

> Does anyone know how to restore a hard drive's partition table. I messed
> it up, trying to put FreeBSD on hda, with Linux already on hdb. When I
> run /sbin/lilo to install lilo on hda, I get the message.

There are several tools out there which attempt to recover your partition
table. http://www.google.com and http://freshmeat.net may be of assistance.
I presume that this recovery is done by scanning the disk and looking for
appropriate magic values.

Regards,


bert hubert.

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