Re: Grub problems
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:58:25 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does
> not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive
> lay-outs, I can load knoppix chroot and do a grub-floppy. But with the
> floppy then what do I tell grub? the home of the grub config file is
> hda6 (or hd0,5) /boot/grub. I can not chroot and run grub-install. The
> dev are all null!
>
> Anybody know how to make the installer write lilo to a floppy?
>
>
The command '/sbin/lilo -u' is supposed to put the mbr back like it was when
the installer found it.
I don't think the installer can be made to write lilo to a floppy. I
usually have it write it to the partition - I think it is either the boot or
root partition - rather than the mbr. That gives me a working
/etc/lilo.conf. I create a boot floppy, because I always want one of those
even if I make a lilo floppy. Then I boot and change the top line of
/etc/lilo.conf to 'boot=/dev/fd0' and put a new floppy in and run
/sbin/lilo.
Anita
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