Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot

From: tripolar (tripolar_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/30/03

  • Next message: dhiraj kiran: "Query" 
    To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:30:10 -0600

    Thanks to all who tried to help. I lost patience and re-installed.
    I am going to post comments/questions about new sarge installer & LILO

    On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 19:23, Mark Haney wrote:
    > > can I use knoppix live-cd to fix mbr to be able to boot sarge & m$XP?
    > > lilo is installed on sarge. grub maybe also installed though not
    > configured.
    > > no boot floppy :-( used new installer and dont remember the option to
    > make
    > > boot floppy
    > > thanks
    >
    > I haven't tried Knoppix yet, but I messed up my MBR just the other day
    > and was able to fix it with the Woody install CD #1, which can also
    > serve as a rescue CD. I booted to the CD, and then entered:
    >
    > 'rescbf24 root=/dev/hda3'
    >
    > at the prompt. This started up the 2.4 kernel (I had trouble trying to
    > rescue with the default kernel; don't think it can read Reiserfs) and
    > set root to my Woody partition. Then I just edited my menu.lst file for
    > grub, reset the MBR with the 'update-grub' command, and rebooted.
    > Everything worked fine after that.
    >
    > HTH,
    > Mark
    > 

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