Re: debian cd boot parameters

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> 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.

If you're talking about the Debian Installer, now at rc2, hit F1 and it 
will give you a menu of options.


> > > 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