reinstalling grub

[Herbert Rutledge]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 21:15, Louis Garcia wrote:

> I forgot to say that I have a boot disk. I can boot from the floppy. So
> can I just do a grub-install --root-directory=/ /dev/hda when I'm in
> linux?

If the problem is simply that Windows has overwritten the master boot
record, a simple grub-install /dev/hda should do it.

Here's something I've learned from working with grub.  Info grub will
tell you how to make a grub boot floppy.

That floppy has saved my backside more than once. It is a very useful
accessory.

-train