[NTLUG:Discuss] installing redhat 6.1 on 2nd hard drive

[Peter Koren]

MadHat wrote:

 ...snip

> > documentation on the web (_anywhere_) on this problem.
> 
> To fix the problem, you will need to boot with a rescue disk (hopefully
> you made one when you went through the setup).

...snip

> If you don't know which partition is which,
> you can do a 'fdisk -l' to see what partitions are available and might
> give you a clue which one is which (if you find the one with /etc, you
> can look at the /etc/fstab to see how linux is expecting to mount the
> devices).
For the limited problem of Windows blowing away a good MBR there is a
simple solution.

I have not been very successful with rescue disks, but it hardly
matters. I always make a printed record of my partition data and
/etc/fstab file so that I can recover from a blown MBR problem using a
floppy with the standard boot.img file that comes on the distro floppy,
or on the distro CD, or from the Internet. I just run:

	boot: linux single root=/dev/hda3 initrd=
	obviously root is on /dev/hda3 on my setup

then I run lilo (if I have a good /etc/lilo.conf) and I am home free.

Regards,

Peter Koren