Well I am now asking why one person can use MBR as an explanation and I am
told not to do so?
On 10/11/06, Horror Vacui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:12:36 -0500
> "Basho Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Cameron Simpson,
> >
> > That is what I have been doing, installing GRUB to the MBR and not to
> > the first sector of the root partition. It is not overwriting the
> > LILO present on the MBR. Any ideas?
>
> Yes, the idea being that you're doing something wrong after all. There's
> nothing to prevent grub from overwriting the MBR, excepting human error (for
> instance, letting it write to a wrong disk). Screwing up with the parametres
> is made extremely easy by the inane notation used hd(0,1) for /dev/hd...
> er... damn, I forgot it again.
>
> Say what MBR you're trying to install GRUB into, and what parametres
> you're
> giving to grub - I'm sure many people here can see the error at one
> glance.
>
> Cheers
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