Help with a little dd damage!

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

John Summerfield wrote:
> It looks like he has a good backup of the MBR and so can recover the 
> root partition table. From there he doesn't need anything until the 
> first filesystem, and if that's /boot alone, then that can be fixed by 
> reinstalling grub and kernel(s).
> 
> Only partitions containing data that got clobbered are irretrievable 
> without further backup. the OP can see that by looking at the partition 
> table in the file, as someone else described.
> 
If the first partition is /boot, and is at least 1.3M, (It had 
better be larger then that.) then doing a restore from 
2ndstage.rescue should put everything back without having to 
re-install the kernels or Grub. Unlike coping files, using dd will 
put everything back where it was, so you should not need to run 
grub-install. If the first partition is something else, then it get 
harder. Note: By the first partition, I mean the first partition 
after the MBR, and not necessarily partition 1. It normally be 
partition 1, but it is possible to partition the disk so it is not.

Mikkel
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   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
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