On 2006-01-03 1710, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > Hi guys. > I've been wondering lately, about bootable cds. The problem I have is the > following. > Recently I had to reinstall windows on my dual boot machine. > Unfortunately, as you may know, when you reinstall windows, it > automatically deletes grub from the MBR thus I was not able to boot debian > any longer. Moral, I had to reinstall debian as well. > > I order to avoid that, I found this interesting reading: > http://www.kuht.it/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=147 > about making a rescue grub-floppy (be careful, it's in Italian). However, > my laptop has no working (in the sense that it doesn't work any more) > floppy drive. It has a working cdrom drive though, so I was wondering: > Is there any chance I can make a sort of rescue grup-cdrom? And if yes, > how do I do that?
As another poster already pointed out, any live-cd will do the trick. Further, it might be worth mentioning the procedure after doing that: - Boot the live-cd and make sure the /-partition is mounted. In Knoppix, that won't be a problem, as it is done automagically. Also ensure that you have access to /boot, if that's on a seperate partition. - As root, use the command chroot to chroot yourself into your old /-partition: chroot /mnt/oldslash /bin/bash Now you more or less have the environment of your Debian-installation. - Assuming the hardware configuration hasn't changed, you should be ably to run update-grub to reinstall into your MBR: /sbin/update-grub That's the theoretical approach. However, I haven't actually performed this myself, so the actual procedure might differ a bit. In particular, update-grub could be confused about where to find /boot -- in which case it might be solved with a symlink. Regards, Anders Breindahl. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
