On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:44:37 -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You boot with the rescue CD, mount your partion RW, chroot your > > partition, cd to the chrooted partition and then you can try to fix > > the MBR. > > that's exactly the question, how to do it... > the debian install cd is also a rescue cd right? >
Right, at the Lilo prompt press an F key, i don't recall which, i've only used once or twice, there should be an option called "rescue", boot the CD and you should have access to a shell (dash?) and from there you can mount your partition, chroot, cd etc. etc. > > Or in the case only the MBR is broken, you can use a boot floppy, on > > Debian there's a script called "grub-floppy" that you can use to > > create one. > > i don't have a floppy drive > You can try with a USB keychain then. =) Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]