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
