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