Thanks Andrew- that worked.
Now that I have researched this I believe that grub was installed by Red
Hat (which was on the machine when I started) and pointed to the Linux partition
that I had overwritten- hence grub was stumped.
In any event I learned a lot and lilo -u /dev/hda1 worked!
Than
At 06:25 PM 2/5/02, Andrew Pounce wrote:
By default lilo creates a backup of the boot sector in /boot
so if you use lilo -u or -U /dev/hda1 it should restore it... If you
read thru the lilo man page it will tell you more...
Its rescued me on one or two occasions...
-- Andrew
On Tue, 2002-02-
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 05:00:01PM -0600, William Lacy wrote:
| I installed debian on a desktop computer and for some reason although I
| chose "make a boot floppy" the install script wrote "grub" the the mbr
| of /dev/hda.
Huh!? boot-floppies comes with grub now? I thought it was lilo.
| I w
By default lilo creates a backup of the boot sector in /boot
so if you use lilo -u or -U /dev/hda1 it should restore it... If you
read thru the lilo man page it will tell you more...
Its rescued me on one or two occasions...
-- Andrew
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 23:00, William Lacy wrote:
> I i
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