agnula grub 137

In comp.os.linux.misc, on Tue 17 January 2006 03:30,

You *could* do it this way, but I imagine that your distribution CD's have a "rescue" option and this would be IMNSHO much easier to use.

You won't be able to boot *from the MBR* into Linux until you correct the MBR, but your Linux system will still be there and you will be able to access it using either the boot-floppy of which you wrote or the "rescue" option from your CDs

That's because you don't want to put menu.lst on the boot floppy. It is not currently in the MBR but in theboot-grub directory on the appropriate parbreastion. You just want to leave it there. The boot floppy will load stage 1 and will then look into yourboot-grub directory on the hard drive for stage 2 (menu.lst)

Yes, that's right - you effectively have the equivalent to the start of your MBR on the floppy, and that dioes not have a normal filesystem

Again that is correct, it all stems from your confusion about what is needed on the boot floppy.

You don't need a file system for the reasons given above

Whilst I don't agree with your aims, they *are* achievable much more easily than you think.

1 Make the boot floppy

2 Check that it works

3 Create a parbreastion to contain Windows (don't rely on Windows to respect your data when installing - it won't unless you give it a dedicated parbreastion).

4 Allow Windows to hijack the MBR and to pretend that it is the only system on your PC

5 Use the floppy to boot into an Operating System or leave the floppy out if you want to use the erzatz O-S

I suggest that you do it sooner rather than later HTH

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