Re: How can sarge survive a Windows reinstall?
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:29:11PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:10:59AM +1100, David Pastern wrote:
> > Hendrik,
> ...
> ...
> > I would the follow the instructions to reinstall grub, as per this
> > article, making sure to have a /boot/grub/menu.lst file identical to
> > previously. Helps to print off the one you currently have ;-) And make
> > a backup copy ;-)
>
> Is there any reason to assume the /boot/grub/menu.lst file would be damaged
> by a Windows install? Or does it become inaccessible somehow?
> Or are we just being paranoid about backups?
> (I approve of paranoia about backups, by the way :-))
If windows were to destroy menu.lst than you can be sure that lots
more will also be lost.
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