Re: damaged mbr

[David Balazic]

"Ensign, Dane" wrote:
> 
> Im trying to salvage my hardrive after I messed it up.
> I tried to partition linux on it via redhat installer and I tried to setup
> grub. Its been a week now and I dont have notes about how I was incorrectly
> partitioning the install. at this point when I turn on the box with my linux
> cd1 install cd ready
> to reinstall it hangs up after it loads the bios. It just displays:  GRUB _
> ( with the underscore blinking) I cant type or anything.
> 
> I think I hosed the mbr. I found a harddrive diagnostics floppy and was able
> to run fdisk /mbr the command took but upon restart the same thing happened.
> Is there a way that I could load GRUB from a floppy to help get me back so I
> can boot from the cd drive and install linux or do I need to head a
> different direction?

You can always boot from the CD drive, regardless of the state of the
MBR
on the hard drive. Just set up you BIOS to try to boot from the CD
before
the HD.

-- 
David Balazic
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