[vox-tech] Oh my God! What have I done to my poor Linux box?!!?

[Richard S. Crawford]

I'm still a friggin' newbie, unfortunately.

If my MBR is screwed up, how is it that I'm still able to load Win2K on=20
this machine?  And how would the MBR get messed up if I unchecked all=20
possibilities for loading LILO or GRUB when I ran the upgrade process?

Would running "linux rescue" from the command prompt when booting with the=
=20
installation CD-ROM in the machine be essentially the same as running a=20
rescue disk?


At 09:06 PM 1/7/2002, you wrote:
>sounds like a bios error.  prolly your mbr is screwed up.
>
>0. use a rescue disk.  preferably something that will boot the
>   filesystem already on your hard drive.  but if you can't do that, a
>   rescue disk which *mounts* the hard drive's root filesystem is fine
>   too.  a debian rescue disk is of the first variety.  a linuxcare or
>   lnx-bbc rescue disk is of the 2nd variety.
>
>1. run lilo.  if you used a rescue of the first variety, no worries.
>   if you used a rescue disk of the 2nd variety, you need to pass lilo
>   the -r option to point to where "/" should be taken as.
>
>2. reboot.
>
>pete


Sliante,
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