[gentoo-user] More on mbr

2005-12-20 Thread reader
How can I get a real eyes on look at what is in the MBR. I'm trying this: dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1 Running strings on the result shows a litte of it: strings mbr.img LILO LILOu)^h `UUfP fPYX I thought maybe it could be mounted so: mkdir mbr mount -o loop mbr.img

Re: [gentoo-user] More on mbr

2005-12-20 Thread Joe Menola
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 5:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What this is all about is that I'm not succeding in overwriting the lilo code mbr by running `grub setup' The grub command succeeds but when I attempt to boot I still get a crippled lilo response.  By crippled I mean the dread:  

Re: [gentoo-user] More on mbr

2005-12-20 Thread Nick Rout
read the reply to your other thread. you installed grub on the first partition, not on the mbr. quite likely this over-wrote something essential to lilo. you can now boot with a boot cd and chroot into your environmment (similar to what you did when installing). From there you can fix either

Re: [gentoo-user] More on mbr

2005-12-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 17:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] More on mbr': How can I get a real eyes on look at what is in the MBR. I'm trying this: dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1 I thought maybe it could be mounted so: Just how much of a filesystem do you

Re: [gentoo-user] More on mbr

2005-12-20 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:59:56 -0600 Joe Menola wrote: On Tuesday 20 December 2005 5:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What this is all about is that I'm not succeding in overwriting the lilo code mbr by running `grub setup' The grub command succeeds but when I attempt to boot I still get a

Re: [gentoo-user] More on mbr

2005-12-20 Thread Ryan
It may be easier to just remove lilo with lilo -U If you cant get the machine to boot so that you can type that, just use a live cd like Knoppix or PCLinuxOS, then make symlinks so that lilo would run. IE: mv etc etc.old ln -s /mnt/etc /etc mv boot boot.old ln -s /mnt/boot /boot then

Re: [gentoo-user] More on mbr

2005-12-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I get a real eyes on look at what is in the MBR. I'm trying this: dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1 Running strings on the result shows a litte of it: There are two things in the MBR: the partition table, and the boot

Re: [gentoo-user] More on mbr

2005-12-20 Thread Eric Bliss
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 03:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I get a real eyes on look at what is in the MBR. I'm trying this: dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1 I thought maybe it could be mounted so: mkdir mbr mount -o loop mbr.img mbr But mount wants to know