Re: [Cooker] kernel-Upgrade does not modify grub boot menu

[J�rgen Zimmermann]

frank wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, J�rgen Zimmermann wrote:
> 
> > Yes, did it yesterday evening (computer is a home). Says "LILO".
> > I dumped the MBR (dd if=/dev/sda of=testfile ...) and analysed it.
> > And there: "LILO" appears somewhere near the start.
> 
> i'd think that command would dump the entire contents of your hard drive to
> testfile...

not if you substitude the "..." by bs=512 count=1...

> > I must admit that I switched from "lilo" to "grub" three or more months
> > ago, and lilo was configured to install in the MBR. Where grub does
> > install, I have no idea, though.

> stage1 of grub installs in the first 446 bytes of your MBR...

Then there is something wrong with my "analyse by hand"-method...

So long,
  Juergen