[TriLUG] Grub boot problem

Joseph Mack NA3T jmack at wm7d.net
Sun Apr 16 09:08:38 EDT 2006


I always have a grub floppy on hand for moments like this.
You can bring up windows and linux no matter what state the 
mbr on the hard disk is. Follow the instructions here for 
making the floppy boot disk with the ext2 filesystem


http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall

      # mke2fs /dev/fd0
      # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt
      # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt fd0
      # umount /mnt


and boot off the floppy (you'll have to add the boot 
parameters into the menu.lst file on the floppy, or do it by 
hand at the boot prompt).

After that install grub with grub-install onto the first 
harddisk in the bios (usually /dev/hda). If this doesn't 
work, boot off the floppy until you figure out what to do

Joe

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