On Saturday 16 August 2003 00:57, -rpg- wrote:
> i have to re-install win98 again but my box wont boot to linux again
> through grub. it goes directly to win98. im using bootdisk to go to
> linux. how do i make boot again using grub?
depends on the bootdisk. what i usually do (with either
tomsrtbt or the mandrake install disk and going into rescue
mode, i've got to get knoppix sometime and work with
that :) is
go to a shell,
mount the hard drive root partition under /mnt (or whatever
directory you want),
mount any other necessary partitions (/boot if it's a
separate partition, you probably don't need /usr, but
you might),
chroot to /mnt (or wherever it was you mounted the hd
root partition under)
then just run lilo. your root partition is now the root
of the hard drive, so it's the same as if you booted into
the hard drive. there might be other tricks you can use
with bootdisks, e.g., specifying the root device, like with
single root=/dev/hda1
or something similar (untested, someone else on the list
will correct me if that's wrong :) . but i don't use those
tricks since mine works. note, you need to setup
lilo to write the boot stuff to the right place (i use the
mbr).
tiger
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