From: Vickram Crishna vvcrishna@radiophony.com
My question is, can I manually write an entirely new boot loader to MBR without reinstalling (especially since even the install disk didn't seem to be able to do that automatically, and the Ubuntu installer wants to rewrite the partitions, which I guess will lose me the RH9 installation)? My active partitions (ext3 fs) are hda6 (/) and hda7 (/usr), and I have hda8 (swap) also. Other partitions on the disk are Windows98 fs where I already have a Win98 installation and data.
I have looked up various Linux help sites after googling, but they advise on editing the existing grub and lilo bootloaders, not writing new ones.
Uh...I dont really get you? What do you mean by writing an "entirely new" bootloader? The file not found error is due to erroneous grub.conf( menu.lst ). So just set it right and be on your way! ;) You needn't rewrite grub. Incase of lilo you would've needed to write it to the MBR if you had modified it...
Regards, Dinesh.
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