On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:18:40AM -0400, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > doing an fdisk /mbr shouldn't hurt you physically, in fact it is quite > useful for when the master boot record gets corrupted. Unfortunately, > it wipes out lilo in the boot record, so you can't boot without a > disk. It wipes out both grub and lilo but your first sentence is also true - it doesn't hurt you physically. I did an fdisk /mbr when I was studying for my RHCE to see how long it would take me to recover (not long). After you've wiped out the mbr, boot into rescue mode and do a grub-install /dev/hda and you're done. > If you have a disk that will allow you to boot to the normal OS & have > everything mounted, do the following: > 1) fdisk /mbr You can do this from a Windows boot floppy. > 2) reboot into single user mode You can't boot into single user mode after wiping out the mbr - it's the master BOOT record that you've just destroyed. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
