On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:28:48 +0200, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote: > I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself to the > internal hard drive.
And what OS does the internal hard drive have? > Now I can't boot from the internal drive since it has encryption > software checking some sort of CRC of the MBR. You should ask to the manufacturer/developer of that software/BIOS. But if it's a windows partition, "fixmbr" should just do it. > Is the backup of the MBR available somewhere in the Linux rootfs? Good question. It should. I remember it was available in openSUSE, look: stt008:/mnt/boot# ls -l total 9624 -rw------- 1 root root 512 mar 1 2008 backup_mbr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 mar 1 2008 boot -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80417 ago 14 2009 config-2.6.22.19-0.4-default drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 440 ago 21 2009 grub lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 ago 21 2009 initrd -> initrd-2.6.22.19-0.4-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4147045 ago 21 2009 initrd-2.6.22.19-0.4-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 395264 mar 1 2008 message -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100313 ago 14 2009 symsets-2.6.22.19-0.4-default.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 400576 ago 14 2009 symtypes-2.6.22.19-0.4-default.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116297 ago 14 2009 symvers-2.6.22.19-0.4-default.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 843747 ago 14 2009 System.map-2.6.22.19-0.4-default -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2149420 ago 14 2009 vmlinux-2.6.22.19-0.4-default.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 ago 21 2009 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.22.19-0.4-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1596248 ago 14 2009 vmlinuz-2.6.22.19-0.4-default You noticed the first file (backup_mbr)? It is exactly what it seems but I cannot find such a file in Debian systems :-? > Please cc to me, I'm not subscribed. I can't ;-( Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.07.29.19.04...@gmail.com
