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.
It's completely destroyed my filesystem.
rgh
>
> Kevin
>
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