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compucoder
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 Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2002 6:59 pm Post subject: Help - grub is messed up and cant use system |
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| Hi, i am using lynx from the boot cd to try and gte help. Boy am I in a mess!!!! I cant do anything - something happened to grub and I cant boot my system - cant even get at my win2k drive - i think my MBR (I know) is screwed. Not even win2k FixMBR can fix this - wont work at all. Does anyone know how I can wipe my MBR using the gentoo install CD tools?? I am sure I can fix the damage once the MBR is formatted so to speak. I just have no idea how to do this. So bad!! Actually got a dead system here! thanx for any help |
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compucoder
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| Just to clarify - my gentoo system on that drive is gone too so just redoing grub is no good to me - just need a way to wipe the MBR - thanx |
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rtn
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| compucoder wrote: | | Just to clarify - my gentoo system on that drive is gone too so just redoing grub is no good to me - just need a way to wipe the MBR - thanx |
You can boot off a windows floppy and use 'fdisk /mbr'.
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compucoder
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thanx guys..all fixed - didnt do the searching..heh - had quite the time navigating lynx through the forum(first time using it)
i had a feeling dd would be able to do it , but the install CD didnt have a man page for it(at least I couldnt find one) so I didnt know what to do with it
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