On 05/11/2007, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:01:02AM +0000, Bill Hill wrote:
Chris G wrote:
However what worries me slightly is that there is presumably an MBR (that's what DOS used to call it) on /dev/sda which the BIOS goes to when the system is powered up. If I repartition /dev/sda will I lose this boot record? How does this get created in the Linux way of doing things?
So if I (say) completely repartitioned and reformatted /dev/sda would I lose the MBR that tells the system to boot from /boot on /dev/sdb? If it wouldn't reboot then I can't run grub.
Which is why you use a live-cd. Boot it, and either reinstall your bootloader using files and config from existing system, or use a liveCD to boot your existing sytem (not the CD system) and then re-run your bootloader command. This works really well for LILO.
Srdjan