[TriLUG] Another grub question

[William Villalba]

Hi Brian,

After a week battling with grub and lilo at least that much I think I 
learned. Basically, the commands you need are:

1. grub (which invokes "grub")
2. Once in the "grub> " write " root (hdx,y) where "x" is the hard drive 
and "y" is the partition where your boot resides. For example, let's say 
your hard drive is set as /dev/hda and your partition where /boot 
resides is /dev/hda2, then you need to write: "root (hd0,1)." Once you 
do so, it should give you a line telling you the type of partition you 
have ( reiserfs, ext2, etc.)
3. You need to setup grub in /dev/hda. Just type "setup (hd0)".  Again, 
it will give you a list of actions with the "ok" comment.
4. To finish, just type "quit" and reboot assuming that you already have 
edited /boot/grub/menu.lst.

Hope this help...

william

Brian Henning wrote:

>Hi Y'all,
>  I just had to reinstall Windows XP on my dual-boot machine, which of
>course blasted grub off of my MBR.  To the best of my knowledge, the ext3
>partitions are all safe and sound on a drive Windows doesn't touch, so I
>figured booting with the Rescue CD (it's FC1) would be the first step in
>restoring grub.  Real quick-like, what's the right set of commands to do to
>get grub back on the MBR?
>
>Thanks as always,
>~Brian
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