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Re: Bug#230502: debian-installer wiped out my MBR



On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:32:42PM +0100, Marc Herbert wrote:
> What is also funny is that the installer stops and ask confirmation
> before rebooting. You know why? because at this time, there is the
> great danger of... rebooting from the CD! A very frightening situation
> indeed.

If you weren't there when the computer rebooted without asking, you
can't be sure everything has gone well.

> I don't have enough skills to write a windows MBR by hand with a disk
> editor

You probably don't need to. If GRUB is running, you can use the
following commands to boot windows (if it's still there of course):
	grub> chainloader (hd0,0)+1
	grub> boot
(if you're presented with a menu at boot, just hit 'c' to get the
command line interface.)

If something went wrong with GRUB, you can still run "install-mbr
/dev/discs/disc0/disc" from a shell within debian-installer (once your
disk has been detected), then reboot.

-- 
Jeremie Koenig <sprite@sprite.fr.eu.org>



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