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by **Basho** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:21

hey. is there a way to format the mbr inside linux? lilo, which currently resides in my laptop's mbr, is not being overwritten by grub when i installed sabayon mini edition. in windows i know about the "fdisk /mbr" command but how do i format the mbr inside linux? thanks for any help.

by **arjay** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:59

Basho wrote:hey. is there a way to format the mbr inside linux? lilo, which currently resides in my laptop's mbr, is not being overwritten by grub when i installed sabayon mini edition. in windows i know about the "fdisk /mbr" command but how do i format the mbr inside linux? thanks for any help.

Well, I'm sure you can, but when I have MBR probs, I use a PCLinuxOS minime livecd and run a binary file which restore the MBR to what it was before grub or lilo; then create another grub.conf or menu.lst. Details are here:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/wiki/DosMbr

by **wolfden** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:02

The sabayonlinux live cd has a recovery - but I am on sure how it works - maybe cvill can expand on that.

I used this guide to restore my grub:
http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/grubrestore/

by **Basho** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 15:37

thanks for the suggestions. i'll try them out and hope it works.

by **wolfden** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 15:48

Just launch the installer from the livecd and click on "I only want to configure the Boot".

by **arjay** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:45

wolfden wrote:Just launch the installer from the livecd and click on "I only want to configure the Boot".

That's right! I forgot about that, and it's a much simpler and quicker solution.

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