[ILUG] any grub gurus?

Glen Gray glen at antefacto.com
Mon Mar 11 16:02:15 GMT 2002


On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 15:56, Niall Brady wrote:
> On 11 Mar 2002 15:02:58 GMT, Glen Gray said:
> >
> >If you have a RH7.2 boot CD you could type "linux rescue" at the prompt.
> >The installer will then find and mount your partitions and dropt to a
> >shell. Then chroot and run grub. Then tell it where root is and to setup
> >the drive.
> 
> ah, the glorious redhat "rescue" mode.  I could tell a story about
> how it once got into the habit of mounting the CD-ROM over the /
> partition.
> 
> But I won't.  'cos it blows.
> 

Perhaps in a previous incarnation it did. But it's saved me several time
from my own stupidity.


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