> > Is there a way to somehow get into grub right from the install CD? > > Yes, but what are you hoping to do? I messed up the boot record or something and was hoping to boot into my system in order to run grub-install. I tried to run it from the rescue disc, but got an error saying it could not find /usr/sbin/grub - for whatever weird reason (the file is there). So I thought I could get into my regular system that way and then run grub-install. > > Can I enter a specific command at the initial install CD > prompt - the > > one where I usually enter "linux askmethod" or "linux rescue"? > > You can go into the rescue mode and, then, play with GRUB to > install to > a hard drive (e.g. to get a system to boot that's not working right). > > But if you're hoping to just get into GRUB to boot something, and not > reconfigure a GRUB installation, I don't know how you'd go about doing > that with the CD. I've done that with floppies, years ago, > after a hard > drive shuffle upset a multi-boot system. Initially, I told the installer to install the boot loader in the first partition rather than the MBR. After the installation, booting failed and it dropped me off at the grub prompt. I manuall initiated the boot process from there and got into the system to run grub-install. After that everything was fine. Now I have to do something similar, but I can not get into the initial grub prompt. So I'm trying to get in there again... Thanks, MARK
