installing a grub/lilo bootloader on the MBR of a MOUNTED hddy

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:54:54PM +0100, Khaled wrote:
> Hi
> could you give me instructions on exactly what to do please...
> Ive never done this before and dont really understand bootloaders very well.
> Khaled
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Well you boot either with the rescue disk or if you use Disk 1 the
type: linux rescue at the boot.
Eventually if you follow the prompts (you don't need networking) you
will given a choice of partitions which have been identified as linux
root partitions to mount. Choose the one you want to mount. It will be
mounted on mount point /mnt/sysimage. Let us say your disk is /dev/hda
 The you could type:
grub-install  --root-directory=/mnt/sysimage  /dev/hda

and then reboot.

Is that clear enough.


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