Howto: Re-establishing boot
process from MBR
==
Introduction:
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In a multi-OS boot system, booting is done from MBR with Grub or such a
boot-loader.
randhir phagura wrote:
> Howto: Re-establishing boot
> process from MBR
>
> ==
>
> Introduction:
> --
> In a multi-OS boot system, booting is done from
randhir phagura wrote:
> Wolfgang wrote on 22 Sep 08:
>
>> Hi Randhir,
>
>> that is correct that you cannot boot if the MBR is gone or corrupt. But
>> in this case you need only a bootable medium e.g. LFS live CD/DVD and
>> then you can repair the MBR with dd command.
>
>> Another alternativ
> Hi Randir,
>
>
> yes I mean a disket and floppy drive. I have yesterday seen from chapter
> 8.4 that
>
> dd if=/boot/grub/stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
> dd if=/boot/grub/stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
>
> may be helpful as well. You can give it a try as well.
>
>
> Wolfgang
>
Well the ea
l (hdx,z)/boot/vmlinuz (or whatever is the kernel name in your
>>> boot partition)
>>> initrd (hdx,z)/boot/initrd (or the specific name of your initrd
>>> file in boot partition)
>>> boot
>>>
>>>The system should boot. After
