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Well, you wouldn't adam and eve it. After writing that last email I got
to thinking about LVM and how I had no idea what it was and didn't
specify it anywhere. It was also the only thing that survived the many
reformats of the partitions. So I deleted it all and repartitioned with
"normal" partitions. And Voila! FC4 installed with absolutely no
problem, installed grub, everything. It all works! Hallelujah!<br>
Thanks so much for all your help and advice, much appreciated.<br>
Ian<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:akonstam@trinity.edu">akonstam@trinity.edu</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 06:59:02AM -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi Jim,
Thanks for the response.
My problem is, though, that I can't boot FC4 at all, because grub
didn't get installed when I reinstalled FC4. The master boot record
still contains lilo from my install of Mandrake, and it won't boot
FC4. So I have no way of changing any grub settings. I think they call
it stuck between a rock and a hard place...
Ian
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An easy way to wipe out the MBR information is by booting up a startup
disk for the w9x series OS and typing "fdisk /MBR". This wipes out grub
or lilo from the master boot record. A DOS boot disk with fdisk on it
should do the same, using "fdisk /mbr"
XP uses the recovery console and I believe you type fixmbr to clear the mbr.
To clear the MBR in Linux, I don't know how to do this. There is
probably a utility to clear the MBR somewhere.
Jim
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Another way to do it is:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1 bc=446
or:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 bc=1
But I don't understand why you can't boot with linux rescue, chroot to
your FC4 root partition (chroot /mnt/sysimage) and run grub-install
Obviously hda might be hdb or sda, etc.
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