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| Sandgroper 2006-02-02, 2:54 am |
| Can anybody tell me what is the rescue command to reinstall grub to MBR ?
I have messed up my dual boot system with FC3 / Windows 98 and I will have
to reformat the partition that contains windows and I have forgotten the
command to go into FC 3 rescue mode to rewrite grub to the MBR.
Thanks
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| Lenard 2006-02-02, 5:54 pm |
| Sandgroper wrote:
> Can anybody tell me what is the rescue command to reinstall grub to MBR ?
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> I have messed up my dual boot system with FC3 / Windows 98 and I will have
> to reformat the partition that contains windows and I have forgotten the
> command to go into FC 3 rescue mode to rewrite grub to the MBR.
Yea, just boot with the FC3 installation media into linux rescue. Answer a
few questions and use the chroot command as suggested on the screen. Then
type something like;
/sbin/grub-install --recheck /dev/hda
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| Sandgroper 2006-02-02, 5:54 pm |
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"Lenard" <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> Sandgroper wrote:
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> Yea, just boot with the FC3 installation media into linux rescue. Answer a
> few questions and use the chroot command as suggested on the screen. Then
> type something like;
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> /sbin/grub-install --recheck /dev/hda
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Thanks Lennard , that is the command that was the commands that I couldn't
remember.
Just another quick question , as I am going to do a re-install of Windows 98
, I was thinking of getting a XP pro upgrade version to update the windows
system , I was wondering how the above commands would work with NTFS and XP
pro , would it be able to re-install the grub data on the hda MBR.
Thanks.
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| I screwed up my laptop dual booting. Orignially I installed fedora on the
spare partition. I wanted to see how slackware was doing these days, so I
insalled that over it. I messed something up along the way, but it would
boot linux from the same boot.ini-listed image. I booted to the slackware
disk - I typed lilo (stupid) and -whadayaknow- it killed my mbr. Then,
After booting the windowsxp recovery console (Admin password was blank) used
the fixmbr command.. Happily, i could then boot, BUT it was booting to lilo,
which knew about windows and slack, so I could select windows. After
selecting windows, I still have my old dual boot configuration from
boot.ini, though it doesn't load slack, probably because it's still using
fedora's root sector image... One day I'll figure out how to put windows
booting back.
-Jessop
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| Lenard 2006-02-04, 7:48 am |
| Sandgroper wrote:
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> "Lenard" <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
> news:FFpEf.6407$2O6.592@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...
> ?
> have
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> Thanks Lennard , that is the command that was the commands that I couldn't
> remember.
>
> Just another quick question , as I am going to do a re-install of Windows
> 98 , I was thinking of getting a XP pro upgrade version to update the
> windows system , I was wondering how the above commands would work with
> NTFS and XP pro , would it be able to re-install the grub data on the hda
> MBR.
Yes, it should work just the same (knock wood) and should not matter which
filesystem is on the first(active) partition of the hard drive.
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"A personal computer is called a personal computer because it's yours,
Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over."
Andrew Moss, Microsoft's senior director of technical policy, 2005
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| Sandgroper 2006-02-04, 5:52 pm |
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"Lenard" <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> Sandgroper wrote:
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> Yes, it should work just the same (knock wood) and should not matter which
> filesystem is on the first(active) partition of the hard drive.
OK , that sounds promising , I was a bit worried about the NTFS file system
, I have read a few things about problems with NTFS and Linux.
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