Re: debian cd boot parameters

From: Andrea Vettorello (andrea.vettorello_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/26/04

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    Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 22:32:54 +0100
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    On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:44:37 -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
    <devotion97@gmail.com> wrote:
    > > You boot with the rescue CD, mount your partion RW, chroot your
    > > partition, cd to the chrooted partition and then you can try to fix
    > > the MBR.
    >
    > that's exactly the question, how to do it...
    > the debian install cd is also a rescue cd right?
    >

    Right, at the Lilo prompt press an F key, i don't recall which, i've
    only used once or twice, there should be an option called "rescue",
    boot the CD and you should have access to a shell (dash?) and from
    there you can mount your partition, chroot, cd etc. etc.

    > > Or in the case only the MBR is broken, you can use a boot floppy, on
    > > Debian there's a script called "grub-floppy" that you can use to
    > > create one.
    >
    > i don't have a floppy drive
    >

    You can try with a USB keychain then. =)

    Andrea 

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