Re: Linux should not be booting
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> this evidently does not overwrite the boot sector, does grub-install do
>> this? I have yet to run grub-install. Of course, this would not explain why
>> my system still boots after deleting the vmlinuz files.
>
> Yes it could: you installed `grub' on your Debian system, but you
> haven't activated it, so you're still booting with Lilo, which uses
> a "list of disk blocks" to find the kernel, so as long as those disk
> blocks don't get overwritten, it'll boot just fine.
The bootsector which Carlos posted here (uuencoded) is a grub boot
sector. It contains the characteristic strings
"GRUB .Geom.Hard Disk.Read. Error"
which can be seen by uudecoding and looking at it with hexedit.
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iEYEARECAAYFAkuZiNwACgkQ+VSRxYk4408zQACfdylkPQHTy6A9o+pZVxLAuEPC
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