[CentOS] Re-doing the MBR
Yiorgos Stamoulis
yiorgos-lists at 272deg.homelinux.net
Thu Sep 28 22:27:05 UTC 2006
Al Sparks wrote:
> I tried to install CentOS 4.4. This was on a machine where I've got
> Windows XP on the first partition (hda1).
>
> CentOS, like most of the distros will automatically install Grub in
> the MBR unless you tell it not to. In fact it will wipe the MBR first
> pretty early in the install.
>
> Here was my problem. During the install, the second CD had some sort
> of read issue. So I had to abort the install by intervening with the
> power switch.
>
> So when I rebooted, I couldn't boot into my XP because the MBR had
> been wiped.
>
> I pulled out an Insert distribution and did a RAM only boot up.
>
> I could still see my NTFS partition where XP was located, and I could
> also see where the CentOS installed the /boot partition in /dev/hda2.
>
> Now I finally solved this problem by going back and doing a minimal
> install of CentOS which doesn't require the second CD.
>
> I've now got something in the MBR, and I'm up an running. But does
> anyone have suggestions on how to semi-manually install grub so that
> it sees what it calls the "other" partition to boot into? Is there a
> tool out there that will do that?
>
> I mean, what if the install had hung up on the first disk instead?
> === Al
>
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you can boot into rescue mode, chroot, cd /boot, and do a grub-install
there.
alternatively, you could boot the WinXP into recovery more and do
fixmbr, removing grub completely
been there, done that, got the t-shirt . . .
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