Hi Eli, On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Eli Marmor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have an old PC (with an old Mandrake), and its grub screwed up. > I want to boot it WITHOUT re-installing the grub (I don't want to touch > the HD till I see it works again, but boot it manually from a > Live-CD/floppy). > How can I do it from a Live-CD or floppy? (both work under this PC). > What Live-CD/floppy is recommended for this purpose? > Can I do it from the boot prompt? > The GRUB command prompt allows you to enter any arbitrary GRUB command and boot the machine however you like. So if the LiveCD contains a working GRUB installation, you can use the GRUB command prompt there to boot it like you would boot from the hard disk. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish > > Thanks, > Eli Marmor > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- ------------------------------------------ Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Electrical Engineering studies. In the Technion. Been there. Done that. Forgot a lot. Remember too much. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
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