On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:58:25 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does > not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive > lay-outs, I can load knoppix chroot and do a grub-floppy. But with the > floppy then what do I tell grub? the home of the grub config file is > hda6 (or hd0,5) /boot/grub. I can not chroot and run grub-install. The > dev are all null! > > Anybody know how to make the installer write lilo to a floppy? > >
The command '/sbin/lilo -u' is supposed to put the mbr back like it was when the installer found it. I don't think the installer can be made to write lilo to a floppy. I usually have it write it to the partition - I think it is either the boot or root partition - rather than the mbr. That gives me a working /etc/lilo.conf. I create a boot floppy, because I always want one of those even if I make a lilo floppy. Then I boot and change the top line of /etc/lilo.conf to 'boot=/dev/fd0' and put a new floppy in and run /sbin/lilo. Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
