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Re: LILO --> GRUB



  ar> You can try zeroing the MBR (not including the partition table)
  ar> and rerun grub-install. Try the following:

  ar> dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.bak bs=512 count=1

  ar> this will make a backup of your mbr including the partition
  ar> table. Then run:

  ar> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=443 count=1

  ar> After the 443 byte it is the partition table so it is
  ar> recommended not to zero the partition table or you will really
  ar> cry. Then rerun grub-install /dev/hda.

Tried the above, but am still getting the message about "no
corresponding BIOS drive" and 'grub' exits.

Strange!

Thanks for the idea,  Adres ... any others?  ;-)

  -Kenneth

PS  Time to restore my old MBR!



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