Re: HELP! Win98 rewrote the MBR
From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_mouse-potato.com)
Date: 10/21/05
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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:16:34 -0500
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:06:58 GMT, Captain Nemo wrote:
> As might be expected, RH9 Linux was still fine but Win98 required a
> reinstall the other day. However, what I failed to realise was that
> reinstalling Win98 would overwrite whatever GRUB had written to my MBR, so
> now I've lost the boot menu.
>
>
> As you can probably tell, I'm not a hardware person and I'm rather nervous
> about how to rectify this problem. My primitive impressions are that:
>
> a) I should be able to get the boot menu back by booting a
> rescue disk and running
Just guessing, ON Redhat/Fedora I think you have to do a
chroot /mnt/sysimage
first.
> grub-install /dev/hda and that
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