Guess I should have reread the thread--I assumed you were going for tomsrtbt for a reason. Yeah, the liveCD will work fine for what you want. I'm on my way out right now, so I can't go into too much detail, but my suggestion would be to create a GRUB boot floppy (instructions on this are available http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap2 but that's for making a netboot image; ignore the part about tulip and just do listing 2.4). Make your best guesses for a grub.conf, write it to the floppy, then boot off it. One of the nice things about GRUB is you can edit its config on the fly (use the e key), so if you didn't get your config file right you can play around with it. (It doesn't actually save to the disk, though..) Once you have a working grub.conf that can boot all your OS's, you should be able to just choose a GRUB root partition, write it to the MBR, and go. In the meantime, you aren't messing with your HD, and so you won't be breaking anything. -Heschi
> > Why not use a Gentoo LiveCD and boot from it. It's got > > everything you need to run a system. > > > > > Brett, > Is the LiveCD the same things as the Stage123 install CD? > > I suggested this possibility earlier but one responder said it wasn't > built to do that. I booted from the Stage 123 install CD last night to play > around with this idea. My thought was I installed grub from that CD in the > first place. It must have enough on it to make this work, if I could find > the right set of command to give it. > > Maybe we could come up with a document about how to use one of these CD's > to repair a system? I'd be up for helping on that. > > Thanks, > Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
