Re: debian cd boot parameters
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:44:37 -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
<devotion97@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You boot with the rescue CD, mount your partion RW, chroot your
> > partition, cd to the chrooted partition and then you can try to fix
> > the MBR.
>
> that's exactly the question, how to do it...
> the debian install cd is also a rescue cd right?
>
Right, at the Lilo prompt press an F key, i don't recall which, i've
only used once or twice, there should be an option called "rescue",
boot the CD and you should have access to a shell (dash?) and from
there you can mount your partition, chroot, cd etc. etc.
> > Or in the case only the MBR is broken, you can use a boot floppy, on
> > Debian there's a script called "grub-floppy" that you can use to
> > create one.
>
> i don't have a floppy drive
>
You can try with a USB keychain then. =)
Andrea
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