Hi, Here is my story : 1 I tried to make a floppy but with no success 2 I tried DrakConf with no success (this is more a problem of the distribution I use... now I learn how to do from your FAQ) But then : 3 I did grub-install /dev/hda then when booting a lot of words grub on the screen 4 No way to boot back in linux 5 I finished by the classical fdisk /mbr 6 Disaster: my hard disk is over even the dos fdisk cannot read the partition table 7 Saved by dd ... bs=512 count=1 from a boot.0300 saved by lilo. So the end is happy...(but I bought a new hard drive to be finally able to recover the old one..) But I still do not understand some points ! So, questions : 1. Is <<grub_install>> usable directly and how should I use it? 2. More important for me : how Grub save the partition table bytes 447-512 of the MBR and where, because it seems to me that stage1 use the whole MBR? 3. Is it is true that the dos fdisk /MBR just acts on the first 446 bytes? as it seems to me from the above. Perhaps it would be nice to explain explicitely how to to do a safe - Thank you for your work ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub