__/ [ Rick ] on Monday 02 October 2006 05:19 \__
I just installed PCLinuxOS. It's Grub overwrote the MBR and I was left
with only being able to boot it for a while. I was able to write a new
menulist, and am now able to boot all three partitions, but that was a
hell of a learning exerience...
.... but you know... in PCLinuxOS.. everything just works. The rest of the
OS looks fairly good to me this time. We'll see when I try t install
VMWare and nVidia.
It's worth keeping a backup of your boot sector. It's a one time thing.
dd if=/dev/hddXXX of=bootsect.lnx size=512 count=1 (change XXX)
You can always restore the machine's old state, reverting back to sanity and
then accessing the editor to modify things as required.
