on 7-30-2008 12:29 AM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: > I am still dead on my corporate system, and the XP boot CD I brought > won't boot. And so far I have not found anyone here at the IETF meeting > that happens to have one in their bag of tricks... > > So I found instructions on doing this in Ubuntu: > > http://www.arsgeek.com/2008/01/15/how-to-fix-your-windows-mbr-with-an-ubuntu-livecd/ > > > > I have my Centos install CD 1 of 6 that gets me into rescue. Is it able > to fix my mbr? > > Problem I have with the above instructions (of course I have not tried > them as I would have to burn the Ubuntu live CD), is I cannot write > anything to the harddrive to store a program to fix the drive (at least > that is my reading of the instructions). I suppose I can put a USB > drive on the system to hold any temp thing? I am wondering if any standard Microsoft boot sector might work. I could probably e-mail you a CD image of a dos 7.1 bootdisk if "fdisk /mbr" would work. I have never tried it, and maybe I'll quickly fire up a VM image of XP and try it. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080730/609a2d8d/attachment-0003.sig>