On 06/16/2009 02:30 PM, Felix Zielcke wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 16.06.2009, 14:20 -0400 schrieb David A. Cobb:
But, I'm puzzled [yeah, that is my normal state]. Did the BIOS actually
read a different image? Or, did the "old" GRUB fail to chainload, even
though there is no visible sign during
Felix Zielcke wrote:
You'd only need to look at the wikipedia MBR page for this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
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And where were you when I needed all this data! ;-)
I did all kinds of searches, but didn't find this info. As I mentioned,
I found the 512 bytes firs
Am Dienstag, den 16.06.2009, 15:59 -0400 schrieb BandiPat:
> Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>
> > Here's what you do from a root shell:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=446 count=1
> > (the "x" is the letter of your installed drive, "a" "b" )
> > Also, for the "bs" number,
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
Here's what you do from a root shell:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=446 count=1
(the "x" is the letter of your installed drive, "a" "b" )
Also, for the "bs" number, never use more than "446" as anything
larger will overwrite your partitio
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:38 PM, BandiPat wrote:
> David A. Cobb wrote:
>
>> This isn't a development question, but I'm hoping the list's knowledge of
>> GRUB will help me understand it.
>>
>> Running Ubuntu 9.04, everything up-to-date, package "grub-pc" version
>> 1.96+
>> GRUB-2 was installed
David A. Cobb wrote:
This isn't a development question, but I'm hoping the list's knowledge
of GRUB will help me understand it.
Running Ubuntu 9.04, everything up-to-date, package "grub-pc" version 1.96+
GRUB-2 was installed after having GRUB 0.9x running for years. The
installation involved
Am Dienstag, den 16.06.2009, 14:20 -0400 schrieb David A. Cobb:
> This isn't a development question, but I'm hoping the list's knowledge
> of GRUB will help me understand it.
>
> Running Ubuntu 9.04, everything up-to-date, package "grub-pc" version 1.96+
> GRUB-2 was installed after having GRUB 0
This isn't a development question, but I'm hoping the list's knowledge
of GRUB will help me understand it.
Running Ubuntu 9.04, everything up-to-date, package "grub-pc" version 1.96+
GRUB-2 was installed after having GRUB 0.9x running for years. The
installation involved letting GRUB chainloa
