GRUB not written to MBR - rewrite problem

[Chasecreek Systemhouse]

On 1/25/06, Dawid Gajownik <gajownik at fedora.pl> wrote:

> > Try dd'ing this image to your hda MBR sector then...
> >
> > http://ccsh.us/IT300/linuxboot.dat
>
>         I wouldn't do that. This image is 512 byte long so it will overwrite
> partition table. What is more, GRUB uses also *_stage1_5 files, which
> are installed _after_ MBR. Without it GRUB may not be able to read
> kernel images.

This is a MBR from a dual boot system; it works on my system.  I did
somewhat warn the OP that this was from a dual boot system.

Also, this same method works on my PowerPC iMac Apple /dev/hda1
partition "label" -- since I still have not found a way to get
anaconda to create it during the install process on any new HD
installed in my iMac.

The anaconda session tries to place an "Apple-Boot" label on my HD but
the partition label must be called "Apple".

But it's all good -- I just boot MacOS 9 off my USB Zip250  and format
the drives =)
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