Paul on Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:38:37 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] System won't boot


> It seems that the kernel on Samantha's box isn't even loading and that
> the mbr on her box is fried.  There is an interesting discussion on this
> on Ralf Brown Interrupt List

If the MBR is fried, why is she able to boot using the old kernel?  I
guess it can't hurt to rewrite the MBR.  Does running lilo or
grub-install rewrite the MBR the way Micro$oft's "fdisk /mbr" does?

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