[LBo] having the MBRs on 31/2 flippies

[Anita Lewis]

On 06/12/2006 05:50 PM Jisao wrote:

> tls123 at rcn.com wrote:
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>>   After I put the linux mbr on the floppy, I didn't have any more 
>> problems.  I know that a lot of linux purists on the LBO object to 
>> doing it that way, but it sure has been the most problem free 
>> procedure for me.  However, after reading these messages about GRUB 
>> and chainloading.  I will try them.
>>   
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> As an additional piece of information, grub is also a shell.  So if 
> it's not working properly for some reason, you can access the shell 
> and edit/change things to fix them and get your system going.
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I like the idea of grub or lilo on a floppy.  That's the way I suggest 
on the booting tutorial in the grub section: 
http://linuxbasics.org/tutorials/during/booting#boot_manager.  At the 
bottom it tells how to do this with lilo also. 

http://linuxbasics.org/tutorials/advanced/grub_command_line tells 
something about using that grub command line.  I used it just the other 
day to boot into Mepis which for some reason was not booting through the 
menu.  I found out that the line giving root (hd0,6) was missing.  
Knowing how to get in with the grub command line was really helpful.  
You can't do that with lilo that I know of. 

Anita