-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkuZiNwACgkQ+VSRxYk4408zQACfdylkPQHTy6A9o+pZVxLAuEPC BXAAoJQ8RVwHQyL+EyZJ073H3C1ZG0HG =6DC8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b9988dc.7090...@web.de
