Bug#230502: debian-installer wiped out my MBR

[Marc Herbert <marc.herbert@free.fr>]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Jeremie Koenig wrote:
> > 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.)

It worked! Actually: (hd0,1)+1, but that was easy to find out.

Thanks a lot for sparing me a lot of head-scratching in the (unknown
to me) GRUB documentation.

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