On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 01:16 +0000, Jack Byers wrote: > > Jack Byers byersj@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Tom Horsley responded: > > Much the same thing happened to me with a beta version of opensuse, > I found these instructions to get back control of the master boot record: > > Boot off fedora dvd. > > Type linux rescue, answer all the questions, might as well skip > mounting any partitions. > > grub > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) > quit > exit There are three things strange about these instructions. they are: 1. I am not sure but you are assuming that you can save the MBR on a disk without mounting it or giving the system access to the grub.conf in the disk. Maybe this will work but it seems strange. 2. I would expect to have to mount the disk with / and/or /boot on it. 3. Then I would expect to do chroot /mnt/sysimage > > This assumes, of course, that the first partition of the 1st > disk is where you were previously booting from. Might have to > adjust the hd0 and hd0,0 if it was a different partition. > ----- > Jack Byers response > I thinki solved it, at least i got the fc5 boot menu back > 1st atttempt > booted off a knoppix cd > went to a root shell > tried the above cmds, it gave weird response even to r (hd0,0) > andthen failed completely on setup (hd0) > > 2d attempt, still booted up in knoppix > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 > (I got this from carla schroder book linux cookbook) > it gave seral responses but hd0,0 was not among them > even tho my fc5 is on sda1 > i probably got several responses bc of my multi linux os setup > i picked the lowest response to use > root (hd1,0) > setup (hd1) > all looked good > quit > and rebooted > got my usual fc5 boot menu back!!!!! > not sure of why hd0,0 didnt work. maybe bc of using the knoppix cd to boot > from? > > anyway much thanks to Tom > the next thing is to see if my grub.conf is properly setup to boot the k.new > ubuntu > it should be, but this mixture of hd0,0 and hd1,0 tells me i dont > really > know what is going on > Jack > > _________________________________________________________________ > Your Hotmail address already works to sign into Windows Live Messenger! Get > it now > http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0020000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://get.live.com/messenger/overview > -- ======================================================================= Absence makes the heart forget. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
