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Re: Grub on mbr without Linux


From: Sebastian Heutling
Subject: Re: Grub on mbr without Linux
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:15:45 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.4i

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:50:56AM +0200, Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
> Oops,
> 
> that implies that you have grub both in the MBR and
> in the boot sector of your Win95 partition.
> 
> Did you save the Win95 boot sector before installing
> Grub ?
> 
> If not, you'll have some problem. I do not know how to
> reinstall the Win95 boot sector in the partition, it
> might work, but no promises, to do a fdisk /MBR on
> that partition (but this will shurely erase Grub from
> the MBR), or boot a Win95 rescue floppy and do a sys C:

If you really destroyed the win95 bootsector you can restore it if the
partition is a fat32 partition. Sector 6 of a fat32 partition contains
a backup copy of the bootsector.


Basti





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