Thanks to all who tried to help. I lost patience and re-installed. I am going to post comments/questions about new sarge installer & LILO
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 19:23, Mark Haney wrote: > > can I use knoppix live-cd to fix mbr to be able to boot sarge & m$XP? > > lilo is installed on sarge. grub maybe also installed though not > configured. > > no boot floppy :-( used new installer and dont remember the option to > make > > boot floppy > > thanks > > I haven't tried Knoppix yet, but I messed up my MBR just the other day > and was able to fix it with the Woody install CD #1, which can also > serve as a rescue CD. I booted to the CD, and then entered: > > 'rescbf24 root=/dev/hda3' > > at the prompt. This started up the 2.4 kernel (I had trouble trying to > rescue with the default kernel; don't think it can read Reiserfs) and > set root to my Woody partition. Then I just edited my menu.lst file for > grub, reset the MBR with the 'update-grub' command, and rebooted. > Everything worked fine after that. > > HTH, > Mark > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]