Redo-mbr..

[OleWilly]

Hi

What would indicate that the command redo-mbr ought to be given or should be given ?

OW

[tschommer]

This usually happens on a dual-boot machine, when Windoze is (re-)installed after Linux. This overwrites the Grub entry and only lets you boot into W$. Or your boot information is screwed up so that you don't get your usual boot screen.

redo-mbr corrects this and rewrites the boot information into the mbr and everything is back to normal 

Hope this helps!

Torsten

[Old-Polack]

Hi

What would indicate that the command redo-mbr ought to be given or should be given ?

OW

Once installed grub should not need to be reinstalled to the MBR unless another OS is installed and the PCLinuxOS grub is overwritten. This can be avoided by having subsequent Linux OS install their grub to the boot sector of their own / partition. One can then either copy the first stanza of the new OS's menu.lst to the PCLinuxOS's menu.lst, or create a chainloader stanza in the PCLinuxOS menu.lst as follows;

title <new OS>
root (hdn,n)
chainloader +1

Replace n with the hard drive number, and n with the partition number, remembering that grub starts counting at 0.