Hi friends, I am a student and currently using linux 2.4.18(RH 8) & linux 2.4.20 for almost 6 mnths.Now, there is a slight prob I recently installed Win 2000 OS on one of the free partitions and on doing so it erased my MBR.I have misplaced both the boot disks somewhere so its like I can't boot in both of my linux sys.Is there any way i can reconfigure my MBR i.e start my boot loader(grub) from another OS (like Knoppix) ?
Thankyou very much in advance Sameer
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--- Sameer Niphadkar wrote:
Hi friends, i can reconfigure my MBR i.e start my boot loader(grub) from another OS (like Knoppix) ?
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Yeah sure you can do that. You got to mount your linux partition and then do chroot on it. After that run lilo after changing the lilo.conf file to add the win2000 partition. Hmm regarding installing grub , you can do it using grub-install after modifying the grub.conf file. for more details on grub you canread the man page.
Hope this helps. Regards Tapeshwar
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Sameer Niphadkar wrote:
Hi friends, I am a student and currently using linux 2.4.18(RH 8) & linux 2.4.20 for almost 6 mnths.Now, there is a slight prob I recently installed Win 2000 OS on one of the free partitions and on doing so it erased my MBR.I have misplaced both the boot disks somewhere so its like I can't boot in both of my linux sys.Is there any way i can reconfigure my MBR i.e start my boot loader(grub) from another OS (like Knoppix) ?
Thankyou very much in advance Sameer
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Try installing GRUB bootloader from disk1 of Redhat Linux . Take upgrade Linux option ..... the installation will ask do u want to install grub bootloader..... :D
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--- Chirag Arjun Bhangale wrote:
Try installing GRUB bootloader from disk1 of Redhat Linux . Take upgrade Linux option ..... the installation will ask do u want to install grub bootloader..... :D
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This procedure takes lot of time, also it sometimes doesn't help , instead boot in rescue mode and then do chroot (read the help properly)
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i have faced same problem before try this Edit /etc/lilo.conf give the appropriate partition for linux/win there run lilo then Pramila.
Sameer Niphadkar spniphadkar@rediffmail.com wrote:
Hi friends, I am a student and currently using linux 2.4.18(RH 8) & linux 2.4.20 for almost 6 mnths.Now, there is a slight prob I recently installed Win 2000 OS on one of the free partitions and on doing so it erased my MBR.I have misplaced both the boot disks somewhere so its like I can't boot in both of my linux sys.Is there any way i can reconfigure my MBR i.e start my boot loader(grub) from another OS (like Knoppix) ?
Thankyou very much in advance Sameer
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Just grab the RedHat CD's. Boot in rescue mode. This will mount you system on /mnt/sysimage. Now press Alt-F2(function key). You will see root shell. In that do this: #chroot /mnt/sysimage #grub-install #sync; sync #reboot
Pop out the CD and boot from hard-drive
HTH
Supreet
boot with the bootable Redhat cd...get into Rescue mode....then say chroot /mnt/sysimage
cd /mnt/sysimage vi /etc/grub.conf
change the parameters for ur windows partitions.....n then say grub-install /dev/hda (hda = primary master drive).....sync ur machine and reboot
try it out
chetan
Sameer Niphadkar spniphadkar@rediffmail.com wrote:
Hi friends, I am a student and currently using linux 2.4.18(RH 8) & linux 2.4.20 for almost 6 mnths.Now, there is a slight prob I recently installed Win 2000 OS on one of the free partitions and on doing so it erased my MBR.I have misplaced both the boot disks somewhere so its like I can't boot in both of my linux sys.Is there any way i can reconfigure my MBR i.e start my boot loader(grub) from another OS (like Knoppix) ?
Thankyou very much in advance Sameer
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