grub confusion

2013-05-15 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i had been using a 500GB disk with two kernels for boot up in two different environment however last nigh i plug the harddrive in to new server and deleted all the partition and installed fresh Debian 6.0.7 on to it. when system is restarted after installation i observe that i could see the same gr

Re: grub confusion

2013-05-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 12:12 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i had been using a 500GB disk with two kernels for boot up in two > different environment however last nigh i plug the harddrive in to new > server and deleted all the partition and installed fresh Debian 6.0.7 > on to it. > > when

Re: grub confusion

2013-05-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 09:31 +0200, I wrote: > Assumed you're using a system with MBR, then GRUB is installed within > the first 512 bytes of the HDD It might be the first 446 bytes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: grub confusion

2013-05-15 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
well i just simply installed Squeeze 6.0.7 like i use to do it. however in old days i was using windows XP CD to delete the partition however this time i decided to delete partition via FDISK during installation and i have used fdisk for very long so there are less chances of making mistakes. i sur