re: Re-establishing boot process from MBR

2008-09-20 Thread randhir phagura
Wolfgang wrote on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 >Hi Randhir >very interesting info. But if you install often or sometimes Windows I >prefer to create the partitions on Linux and then save the MBR in a file >with the dd command e.g. >TS=`date +%Y%m%d` >dd if=/dev/hda of=/boot/mbr_$TS bs=512 count=1 >Thi

Booting lfs from within vmware?

2008-09-20 Thread dave
Hello, Does anyone have lfs booting from within vmware? I've made an lfs system from a ubuntu 8.04 box and am now trying to boot it. It gets to loading the kernel then stops with no messages. I'm doing this from within vmware, using server v1.07. I've got scsi support compiled in to the kernel. I'm

Restoring grub on MBR

2008-09-20 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
randhir phagura wrote: > Howto: Re-establishing boot > process from MBR > > == > > Introduction: > -- > In a multi-OS boot system, booting is done from

Restoring grub on MBR

2008-09-20 Thread randhir phagura
Howto: Re-establishing boot process from MBR == Introduction: -- In a multi-OS boot system, booting is done from MBR with Grub or such a boot-loader.