GRUB will not be overwritten

[Trey Sizemore]

Terry Polzin wrote:

>On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:07, Krzysztof Kujawski wrote:
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>>I think this is dengerous.
>>Can I install GRUB on floppy disk.
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>>I wrote commands as you gave me:
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>>chroot /mnt/sysimage
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>>and
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>>/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda3  -- linux partition
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>>and I obtained message:
>>`Installation finished. No error reported.
>>This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map
>>Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect fix it
>>and re-run the script `grub-install'.
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>># this device map was generated by anaconda.
>>(fd0)   /dev/fd0
>>(hd0)   /dev/hda'
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>>exit
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>>exit
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>>rebooting
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>>and  I still see windows boot loader
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>>Windows 2000 first
>>Windows 2000 se.
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>If you are rewriting the MBR wouldn't you be running the command as follows:
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>/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda
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>You want to rewrite the MBR not install grub into a partition, right?
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How about the 'grub>' prompt I'm getting as mentioned in my earlier post 
in this thread?  How do I rectify that?