[TriLUG] Grub boot problem

[William Sutton]

I appreciate the suggestion, and will probably use it, but what I was 
looking for was more of the [figuring out what I needed to do] course of 
action :}

-- 
William Sutton


On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> 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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