On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > I know it will fire my bootloader (lilo on the MBR) to wipe out the mbr dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=448 count=1 aka: fdisk /mbr aka: reformat/reinstalling :-) to install the mbr dd if=working-mbr of=/dev/hda bs=448 count=1 > > If you have a floppy drive, one of these should work: > > > > use 'mkboot' to make a boot floppy (easiest) to make a boot floppy dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 ; sync wait for the fd idiot light to go off :-) to make a lilo boot floppy with regular lilo options vi /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/fd0 lilo # create the MBR on the floppy instead to make a grub boot floppy... - save this task for last .. if you wanna have fun > mkboot only works if you have lilo installed. those commands and gazillion other equivalent/similarly named commands all have assumptions in order to work > > or, get tomsrtbt to rerun lilo. > > > > http://www.toms.net/rb/ requires that you have a working lua script language tool to create the new standalone boot floppy ----------- boot any standalone boot floppy or cd or cf or usb-stick mount /dev/your-disk /mnt/dead-boot-disk chroot /mnt/dead-boot-disk lilo or "grub-install /dev/your-disk" exit reboot ---------- more gazillion ways to make a device bootable > So much study I found it easier to install and configure lilo even though > my system already booted with grub. My son is suspicious of grub. Last > year when he installed Debian using grub as bootloader, it hosed but > WinXP installation. whatever bootloader you use will ALWAYS wipe out the previously installed MBR if you write to the same location ... ( /dev/hda vs /dev/hda1 vs /dev/hda2, ... ) if you want dual boot ... - you have to explicitly create the dual-boot config files ( lilo.conf or ( grub.conf aka menu.lst ) ) > He now uses lilo and boots Linux *only* from a floppy. sometimes paranoia is a good thing ... until one understands what the silly apps do when you tell it "go ahead and wipe out my disk" > By the way, does anyone know how to tell lilo that although the boot > and root partitions are all on /dev/hda, it should make a boot floppy > that boots from /dev/hdc instead, vi lilo.conf boot = /dev/fd0 root = /dev/hda1 lilo ------------ more booting fun http://Linux-Boot.net c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]