On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:57:17 +0800 (PHT), P. M. D. Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good day. > > Before anything else, I would first like to describe my current setup. I > have a small FAT16 partition, which contains the nt loader, an NTFS > partition containing Windows XP, an NTFS XP swap partition, a FAT32 shared > partition (for sharing files between linux and windows), and finally an > ext3 Fedora Core 3 partition. > > The problem is, I have reinstalled Windows XP, and not surprisingly it > overwrote the hard drive's MBR thus practically trashing GRUB. I know this > is very easy to fix, I just boot from the rescue cd's and reinstall grub > on the MBR, which I have done many times. However, this time I installed > Norton GoBack, a utility that tracks disk changes on a low-enough level to > allow me to undo changes and restore my disk to a previous state. > Naturally, GoBack took control of MBR. > > I do not want to remove GoBack. Thus what I want to do is create a > diskette or a cd that will allow me to start-up linux. Is it as simple as > installing GRUB's stage1 to the diskette's boot sector? And if I do this, > will I still have GRUB's boot menu if I boot from the disk (where is the > boot menu data stored anyway; I'm guessing it's in /boot)? Also, provided > that this'll work, is it possible that the start-up diskette will be > read-only, so I can transfer an image of it to a CD and use that instead > (I do not want to allow diskette-based booting on my laptop)? > > Thank you for taking your time in reading my long message, I hope someone > replies soon. Thank you and a good day. > --
# fdformat /dev/fd0 # mke2fs /dev/fd0 # mount /boot # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 # mkdir -p /mnt/fd0/boot/grub # cp /boot/grub/stage* /mnt/fd0/boot/grub # grub root (fd0) setup (fd0) quit # echo "Edit/Create grub.conf accordingly" # cat /mnt/fd0/boot/grub/grub.conf title GNU/Linux root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel root=/dev/hda1 title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 -- Eduardo Tongson http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6033AC66 -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
