Re: Grub Reinstall Problem!!!

From: Peter Boy (pboy_at_barkhof.uni-bremen.de)
Date: 06/01/04

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Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:32:44 +0200

    Am Di, den 01.06.2004 schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook um 07:41:
    > It would appear that on May 31, Peter Boy did say to Chiheb Djabri:
    >
    > > If you have lost your grub by a windows install, you lost your MBR (the
    > > first boot sector on your harddisk). The content of your /boot partition
    > > is still in place.
    > >
    > > To reinstall the mbr you have to perform
    > > grub-install /dev/hda
    > >
    > > [...]
    > >
    > I have a couple of questions though.
    >
    > With lilo, if I install it to mbr with "lilo -b /dev/hda" I can also make
    > a back up boot floppy with "lilo -b /dev/fd0" without breaking the one
    > in /dev/hda... [....]
    > 1) is it possible to install the same grub to start from the mbr OR from
    > a floppy depending on which bios finds first?

    I'm by ways not a grub expert :-)

    I don't know because I never tried it yet and prefer to use the rescue
    mode. The way you describe the problem it may be a grub bug.

    > 2) In case I must depend on the rescue mode sometime, Will it be able to
    > find the right linux installation on a system with
    > FC2, FC1, MDK9.1, SuSE 7.3, Win98se, AND Dr Dos on it. Or would the
    > following partition tables confuse it
    > [...]

    The Red Hat rescue mode used to scan the harddisk(s) and to present a
    list of linux systems it found. You can choose which one to deal with. I
    have three different Linux distros installed here (and there is a
    Windows and an OS/2 partition as well) and never had any problems with
    the rescue mode.

    Peter 

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