Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot
Thanks to all who tried to help. I lost patience and re-installed.
I am going to post comments/questions about new sarge installer & LILO
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 19:23, Mark Haney wrote:
> > can I use knoppix live-cd to fix mbr to be able to boot sarge & m$XP?
> > lilo is installed on sarge. grub maybe also installed though not
> configured.
> > no boot floppy :-( used new installer and dont remember the option to
> make
> > boot floppy
> > thanks
>
> I haven't tried Knoppix yet, but I messed up my MBR just the other day
> and was able to fix it with the Woody install CD #1, which can also
> serve as a rescue CD. I booted to the CD, and then entered:
>
> 'rescbf24 root=/dev/hda3'
>
> at the prompt. This started up the 2.4 kernel (I had trouble trying to
> rescue with the default kernel; don't think it can read Reiserfs) and
> set root to my Woody partition. Then I just edited my menu.lst file for
> grub, reset the MBR with the 'update-grub' command, and rebooted.
> Everything worked fine after that.
>
> HTH,
> Mark
>
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