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read the reply to your other thread. you installed grub on the first |
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partition, not on the mbr. quite likely this over-wrote something |
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essential to lilo. |
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you can now boot with a boot cd and chroot into your environmment |
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(similar to what you did when installing). |
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>From there you can fix either grub or lilo and all should be sweet. |
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:45:00 -0600 |
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reader wrote: |
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> How can I get a real eyes on look at what is in the MBR. I'm trying |
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> this: |
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> dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1 |
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> Running strings on the result shows a litte of it: |
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> strings mbr.img |
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> LILO |
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> LILOu)^h |
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> `UUfP |
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> fPYX |
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> I thought maybe it could be mounted so: |
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> mkdir mbr |
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> mount -o loop mbr.img mbr |
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> But mount wants to know what `type' filesystem it is. I tried a few |
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> things but really didn't expect them to work like: |
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> ext2 msdos minix iso9660 |
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> None worked of course. So can this be done? Any one know what |
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> should be in there exactly and how to view it? |
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> What this is all about is that I'm not succeding in overwriting the |
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> lilo code mbr by running `grub setup' |
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> The grub command succeeds but when I attempt to boot I still get a |
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> crippled lilo response. By crippled I mean the dread: |
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> Li . . . . Hang forever |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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