Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 18:46 -0700, Technomage wrote:
>
>> Fedora: forces you to run SELINUX regardless of whether you need it or
>> not
>>
>
> this is simply wrong.
>
> On Fedora 12 (the latest version released a few weeks ago)...
>
I was running fedora 11 and e
Hello windoze knowledgeable people... :)
Short story:
Preamble:
I have this WinXP laptop provided by my employer that I'd like to run
virtual from a Linux installation on a flash drive. 'nuff of that...
How did I shoot my foot:
I went and installed Kubuntu 9.10 (which uses GRUB 2) on the
From: "kitepi...@kitepilot.com"
> I went and installed Kubuntu 9.10 (which uses GRUB 2) on the flash
> drive and forgot to tell the thing to leave /dev/sda alone...
>
> Now the machine only boots from the flash drive.
> My plan is to backup the 512 bytes of the MBR and (MOST IMPORTANT!)
> the pa
>> get the 446-byte boot record from somewhere and dd it to /dev/sda
I LIKE THIS IDEA!!! :)
Are you telling me that I can just grab those 446 bytes from *ANY* WinXP
box, copy them to my MBR and the laptop will boot? 8)
That's a pretty "un-risky" proposition... :)
Thanks!
ET
Matt Graham
this is exactly what you will need to do...
i just lament that W7 and Vista lost these wonderful tools.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
> From: "kitepi...@kitepilot.com"
>> I went and installed Kubuntu 9.10 (which uses GRUB 2) on the flash
>> drive and forgot to tell the thi
yes, however if you have a windows XP disk you just boot it, hit the
option to go to the repair console type FIXBOOT and then fdisk /mbr
and it rebuilds the MBR as well.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:16 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com
wrote:
>>> get the 446-byte boot record from somewhere and dd it to /d
I would BLINDLY trust:
dd if=other-MBR.iso of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1
I would NOT trust FIXBOOT and/or just about anything Micro$haft to
manipulate my partitions... ;-)
THANKS!!!
ET
Stephen writes:
> yes, however if you have a windows XP disk you just boot it, hit the
> option to go to
:-) i can appreciate that, but it is something i have done repeatedly
in the past and know it is functional.
but you now have 2 tools both know to work :-)
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:01 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com
wrote:
> I would BLINDLY trust:
> dd if=other-MBR.iso of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1
>
