I appreciate the suggestion, and will probably use it, but what I was looking for was more of the [figuring out what I needed to do] course of action :}
-- William Sutton On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > I always have a grub floppy on hand for moments like this. > You can bring up windows and linux no matter what state the > mbr on the hard disk is. Follow the instructions here for > making the floppy boot disk with the ext2 filesystem > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall > > # mke2fs /dev/fd0 > # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt > # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt fd0 > # umount /mnt > > > and boot off the floppy (you'll have to add the boot > parameters into the menu.lst file on the floppy, or do it by > hand at the boot prompt). > > After that install grub with grub-install onto the first > harddisk in the bios (usually /dev/hda). If this doesn't > work, boot off the floppy until you figure out what to do > > Joe > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
