[NTLUG:Discuss] Boot Sector problem

[Terry]

Use Mandrake's rescue mode, (hopefully on install CD#1), to boot up
your Mandrake system and do it from there.

On 4/5/06, Pervaz Allaudin <pervaza at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I managed to erase my boot record while trying to switch from Fedora 2 to Mandrake 10.1 on my old dual system. On top of that that all the CDs are erroring out due to crc error so I cannot do another reinstall. So both windows 98 and Linux are dead in the water.
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>   I am able to boot with Knoppix and did find the grub-install command; My problem is Knoppix gives a read only error and I am not too sure what my non-knoppix hda1&2 is mapped on.
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>   I tried both - There is /knoppix/dev/had1&2 and a dev/hda1&2 somewhere also if I am not mistaken. had2 was by FD2 /boot and hda1 my windows 98.
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>   So the question is how can I get my boot loader back into my hard drive?
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>   Also should I put it on had1 - the windows system - which I think I had previously?
>   The web pages where I checked warned against going into the MBR and went for longer procedure of copying the boot file while into window etc.
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>   Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>   Thanks in advance
>
>   Pervaz
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