Good day. Before anything else, I would first like to describe my current setup. I have a small FAT16 partition, which contains the nt loader, an NTFS partition containing Windows XP, an NTFS XP swap partition, a FAT32 shared partition (for sharing files between linux and windows), and finally an ext3 Fedora Core 3 partition.
The problem is, I have reinstalled Windows XP, and not surprisingly it overwrote the hard drive's MBR thus practically trashing GRUB. I know this is very easy to fix, I just boot from the rescue cd's and reinstall grub on the MBR, which I have done many times. However, this time I installed Norton GoBack, a utility that tracks disk changes on a low-enough level to allow me to undo changes and restore my disk to a previous state. Naturally, GoBack took control of MBR. I do not want to remove GoBack. Thus what I want to do is create a diskette or a cd that will allow me to start-up linux. Is it as simple as installing GRUB's stage1 to the diskette's boot sector? And if I do this, will I still have GRUB's boot menu if I boot from the disk (where is the boot menu data stored anyway; I'm guessing it's in /boot)? Also, provided that this'll work, is it possible that the start-up diskette will be read-only, so I can transfer an image of it to a CD and use that instead (I do not want to allow diskette-based booting on my laptop)? Thank you for taking your time in reading my long message, I hope someone replies soon. Thank you and a good day. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
