Yes,
What Michael said. /dev/hda.
Phillip
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:39:20AM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 22:59, Matthew Larson wrote:
> > /dev/hda1 is my windows partition
> > /dev/hda5 is my linux partition.
> >
> > should I run 'grub-install /dev/hda1' or 'grub-install /dev/hda5' ???
>
> Probably /dev/hda, since you most likely want grub in the main boot
> record area of the disk. Otherwise it will never get booted.
>
> Michael
>
> >
> > Thanks for the help
> >
> > On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 15:52, Phillip Hellewell wrote:
> > >
> > > 1. Boot with RedHat in rescue mode or knoppix or a boot disk or whatever
> > > until you can get to a login shell.
> > >
> > > 2. Login as root and then follow these steps:
> > > a. mkdir /hd
> > > b. mount /dev/hda1 /hd
> > > (replace hda1 with the correct partition where linux is stored)
> > > c. chroot /hd
> > > ( Now your root directory / corresponds to /dev/hda1 )
> > >
> > > 3. Run /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda1
> > >
> > >
> > > Good luck. Hope it is not too complicated.
> > >
> > > Phillip
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 10:50:12AM -0700, Matthew Ryan Larson wrote:
> > > > A re-installation of windows ate my boot-loader, and I can't get back into
> > > > linux. I figured the install CD's would fix this. So, I went through the RH 8
> > > > wizard, picked the option to add features to my current installation, picked to
> > > > re-install my boot loader, followed the options, but got an error stating
> > > > something to the effect of "No kernal packages were installed on your computer,
> > > > your boot loader will not be modified" and was told that the installation was
> > > > complete.
> > > >
> > > > Thinking that re-installing a kernal would fix this, I went back through the
> > > > installation wizard, picked the option to customize packages to be installed,
> > > > picked a kernal to install in addition to re-installing the boot-loader, and
> > > > got
> > > > the same error message as above.
> > > >
> > > > What should I do?
> > > >
> > > > Matthew Larson
> > > >
> > > >
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