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From: |
Gillard Roland |
Subject: |
Partitition Table |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Jun 2001 16:53:13 +0200 |
Hi,
Here is my story :
1 I tried to make a floppy but with no success
2 I tried DrakConf with no success
(this is more a problem of the distribution I use...
now I learn how to do from your FAQ)
But then :
3 I did grub-install /dev/hda then when
booting a lot of words grub on the
screen
4 No way to boot back in linux
5 I finished by the classical
fdisk /mbr
6 Disaster: my hard disk is over
even the dos fdisk cannot read the
partition table
7 Saved by dd ... bs=512 count=1
from a boot.0300 saved by lilo.
So the end is happy...(but I bought a new hard drive
to be finally able to recover the old one..)
But I still do not understand some points !
So, questions :
1. Is <<grub_install>> usable directly and how should I use it?
2. More important for me :
how Grub save the partition table bytes 447-512 of the MBR and where, because
it seems to me that stage1 use the whole MBR?
3. Is it is true that the dos fdisk /MBR just acts on the first 446 bytes?
as it seems to me from the above. Perhaps it would be nice to explain
explicitely how to to do a safe desinstallation
Thank for your work!
Roland Gillard
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