Re: help! root partition problems
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:05:09 +1000
Richard Heycock <rgh@flute.bandcamp.tv> wrote:
> I just ran grub-install on my root partition and not my boot partition,
> which added an x86 boot sector to the front of this partition. Doh. The
> underlying file system is reiserfs. I have tried dd'ing (after dd'ing the
> whole thing to a backup file) the 512 bytes from an existing reiserfs
> partition but this did not work.
> Can anyone tell me what to do?
Do "grub-install /dev/hda" assuming /dev/hda is your hard drive.
It doesn't hurt anything to have grub in your partition boot sector, it just
doesn't do much good. It doesn't hurt your root filesystem.
Kevin
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