Quote Originally Posted by ChivalricRonin
Hello all, I recently got myself into a scrape with a debian installation. Suffice it to say, I cannot boot into either winxp or debian anymore due to the WinXP rescue console's FIXMBR command. So I've loaded up knoppix...

Recently a similar thing happened to a friend and he used some varient of fdisk /mbr (THAT command does not work) in knoppix under root term to fix the MBR so that he could boot back into windows.

I would REALLY appreciate it if anyone could tell me the command to fix/write a new MBR. Thanks
Boot with the Knoppix CD using knoppix 2 then.
Code:
 
mount /dev/hd?? /mnt/hd??
chroot /mnt/hd??/ /sbin/lilo -v
shutdown -r now
Replace the ?? with the partition number and drive letter of the / partition. When you chroot (change root) and write lilo to the disk it will use the same configuration that was working before if you want to make any changes you should do so before the chroot command.