[clue-tech] Help Recovering from grub-install error

David Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Tue Mar 29 19:17:11 MST 2005


Gary Threlkeld wrote:
[...]
> I'M ALIVE AGAIN

Glad to hear it.

[...]
> and was able to do a windows reinstall.  Since windows was already
> installed in the /dev/hda1 partition, the net effect was just to refresh
> the boot sectors overwriting grub once again - but that's OK.

Seems like you got a bit of a break there.  In XP, besides the fix MBR 
you used earlier there's also a fix boot.  I never knew the difference 
but maybe one is for the disk MBR and the other for a partition's boot 
sectors.  In case that comes in useful sometime.

Dave



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