[NTLUG:Discuss] Grub assistance

[Tom Hayden]

I said this would be the safest thing to do. Not the easiest. Having 
lost an entire Linux disk before with a similar problem, I can not 
stress the need to back up the entire disk before you do ANYTHING.
Some of the suggestions about booting of a rescue cd and re-writing the 
MBR will probably work.

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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