Re: bootable cd

[Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <tgakic@chem.tue.nl>]

On  3-01-2006, at 17h 10'20", Alessandro Speranza wrote about "bootable cd"
> Hi guys.
> I've been wondering lately, about bootable cds. The problem I have is the 
> following.
> Recently I had to reinstall windows on my dual boot machine. 
> Unfortunately, as you may know, when you reinstall windows, it 
> automatically deletes grub from the MBR thus I was not able to boot debian 
> any longer. Moral, I had to reinstall debian as well.
> 
> I order to avoid that, I found this interesting reading:
> http://www.kuht.it/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=147
> about making a rescue grub-floppy (be careful, it's in Italian). However, 
> my laptop has no working (in the sense that it doesn't work any more) 
> floppy drive. It has a working cdrom drive though, so I was wondering:
> Is there any chance I can make a sort of rescue grup-cdrom? And if yes, 
> how do I do that?
> 
> Thanks a lot for help
> 	Alessandro
> 

Any live Linux CD can help you. Just boot with one and then fix the
mbr. You can use knoppix, or systemrescuecd, etc. The first CD on the
debian distribution should be also bootable.

There is no need to reinstall Debian if you only miss your mbr record!

Regards,
       Ionel