[NTLUG:Discuss] Grub assistance

[Mike LaPlante]

If it was lilo I think I could handle it, I know lilo from back in my 
slackware days. Fedora's grub has always mystified me, but it seems 
thats the way everyone is going these days so why fight the current.

Thanks for the tips, I guess I was hoping editing the grub.conf and 
running some grub command would fix the MBR for me, so that I wouldn't 
need to find a rescue CD. (I don't have the original install discs 
anymore.) So, I'm off to the Fedora mirrors to find a rescue iso. Then 
I'll remove sda and change the jumpers on the drives to make the linux 
drive the master and see if I can puzzle out grub.

Mike

Richard wrote:
> Tom Hayden wrote:
>   
>> <snip> The safest way around that is to back up your Linux disk (at 
>> least the data), remove the Windows disk, reformat the Linux disk, 
>> reinstall Linux and then restore your data. <snip>
>>     
>
> OUCH!  "..reformat the Linux disk,"  just because there is no MBR on the 
> disk??  That's HARSH!  (Not to mention a lot of work and risk to try to 
> get things back to the way they were.)
>
> Surely my poor ancient LILO isn't THAT much better than grub!??!  I 
> thought grub was the new up and coming end-all be-all of loaders?
>
> The great mystic, Google, hints at running "grub-install /dev/hdb"   
> Does something like that work in grub?
>
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