[ltp] SuSE 8.0 on TP 600E *beware*

[Eric Jorgensen]

On Sun, 12 May 2002 18:03:01 +0200
"philippe.corboz" <philippe.corboz@pop.agri.ch> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I just went thru the unpleasant experience of re-installing W98SE which I had
> on my dual-boot SuSE / W98 system. Cause: the "upgrade" from SuSE 7.2 to SuSE
> 8.0 had clobbered the MBR in a way that made the hard disk unbootable, I had
> to do all the recovery activities via floppies and CD's. Not even 'format
> /MBR' worked.

	I've never seen a data problem that "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1024
count=1024" couldn't fix. :)

 - Eric

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