On Wednesday 10 September 2003 23:46, Mike Bellemare wrote: > I'm about to loose my boot sector because of a re-installation of a certain > OS and was wondering the steps to get it back with the live CD(which i've > heard that could be used as a boot disk). > Do I have to mount everything and chroot in my hd system or i can perform > it only by mounting /boot (/dev/hda1) to use my grub.conf file and do the > grub-install /dev/hda from the live CD?
You just need a grub executable. I don't remember if it's on live CD. In case it's not there, you'll have to mount your system && chroot into it. And in grub shell you need to issue to commands: root (hdX,Y) setup(hd0) That's all. At least this worked for me. HTH, Dmitry. -- Gentoo Linux 2.4.20 #1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
