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Old 12-01-2004, 12:27 PM   #1
shanenin
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reinstalling grub on the mbr


lets say a person is dual booting linux and windows. Then they reinstall windows, which writes over the MBR. Could they fix grub by rerunning grub from a live version of linux like knoppix, without chrooting there / partition. Since knoppix already has grub installed couldn't they just specifiy their installed boot partition.

#grub
grub> root (your boot partition)
grub> setup (hd0,0)
grub> exit

Is it at all nessesary to run grub from their chrooted partiton, it does not seem to be?

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Old 12-01-2004, 01:00 PM   #2
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I just tested it using knoppix. There is no need to chroot your / partition. It worked fine.
 
  


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