Re: How can sarge survive a Windows reinstall?
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:08:23PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> 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.
Aha! justified paranoia. Yes. I have had that much damage from a
Windows install once.
So if all else fails, I can use, say, knoppix, to de-tar my backup files over
NFS from another machine to restore my wiped partitions, and then use
this rescue procedure to boot into the restored linux system.
-- hendrik
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