[vox-tech] grub blunder

Bruce Wolk bawolk at ucdavis.edu
Sun Feb 26 20:43:01 PST 2006


Bob Mullan said the following:
> Bruce
> Thank you for your help. In Knoppix one can select the drive from the top
> right of the desk top screen. By default they are not writeable. You can
> toggle them to writeable which I assume I would have to do to use the
> install-mbr command. Right? Well if so I'm between a rock and a hard place
> because I am given to understand that changing the read write status of the
> NFTS drive in Knoppix is very risky. Do you have any views on this?
> Bob
> 

I don't think there is any risk since you are only writing to the MBR 
and won't affect the file system at all.

Bruce


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