[Uaflug] grub (lilo) failure

[Joshua J. Kugler]

On Monday 02 March 2009, James Becwar said something like:
> If you boot up with a windows install CD, and select the command
> prompt, you can use the FIXBOOT command to repair the master boot
> record (MBR).  This will allow you to boot to windows, but not your
> RH8 and Ubuntu installs.  If you want to fix GRUB, you going to need
> a ubuntu install cd, boot to text mode, mount your root partion and
> rerun grub.  You may need to edit your grub.conf, to make sure all
> your installs are in the list. -James

I believe recent Ubuntu live CD's also have a rescue mode with a "repair 
grub" option.  You might want to look into that.

j

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