This is just amazing...not

[blann]

Aloha Karl,
  Below some answers I may have failed to make in text ( and thanks for your
input):
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Pearson" <karlp at ourldsfamily.com>
To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: This is just amazing...


> Please forgive my top-post, but also forgive my response:
>
> If you are going to "If I may change the subject" to us, please actually
> CHANGE THE SUBJECT (line above).
>
> This is called Hijacking A Thread, and isn't very good manners.
>
> Now to your email (see below):
>
>
> On Fri, September 3, 2010 2:58 pm, blann wrote:
>> If I may change the subject and, as usual ask for help (and thanks for
>> past
>> responses):
>>  Many moons back I must have damaged my MBR (winXP,FC6). A helpful member
>> sent a cd with ubuntu , and now there is a boot choice(grub) between that
>> OS
>> and  XP.
>
> fdisk /mbr will 'fix' a broken master boot record so you can boot into
> WinXP again, though why anyone would without being coerced to, I don't
> know.
>
>>
>> I am trying to see if I can restore the grub loader to get into my old FC
>> installation which is likely
>> still on my HD. I have tried my disk1 from  FC6 to do a reinstall, it
>> seems to go thru motions,
>> but a revised grub loader does not come up- even tho I get a message
>> during
>> install
>> that boot loader is being installed- and an installation complete msg.
>
> When you installed Ubuntu (Linux Mint is much better IMHO), do you
> remember being asked if you wanted to put it side-by-side with BOTH WinXP
> and FC?
I DO NOT RECALL_ MY OLD MEMORY IS BAD< BUT AT STARTUP A GRUB
LOADER APPEARS< IT CONTAINS UBUNTU,WINXP, UBUNTU RESCUE, AND
A COUPLE OF MEMORY CHECK OPTIONS. SO THE 'LIVE UBUNTU' SEEMS MOUNTED
WITH WINXP OPTION. The HD organization coming up shows a /dev/hdb with hdb1
ext3(102mb),
and hdb2 LVM PV (117138 mb)- and /dev/sda with sda1-3 and 5-7
partitions,ntfs,ext3,extended,ntfs,
ext3,swap partitions. I need now after some years to go back and review my
partitions to ID.
>
>>
>> Is there a way to repair or replace what I am assuming is a damaged
>> mbr/grub
>> loader due to having
>> turned off a hung up XP with AC button?
>
> as I wrote above: fdisk /mbr
FDISK sounds like what I may have used years ago to repartition; is it on
disk 1 of my FC6
install?
>
>>
>> I have, via generosity of an active member of the group, an FC12 set of
>> install disks; have hesitated
>> running this for fear I would overwrite /home directory, whereas the FC
>> Bible advises that simple
>> re-install of FC6 should not do this.
>>   Any comments greatly appreciated! Thanks- Marshall
>
> Any install of FC will overwrite the home directory, unless specifically
> told not to. What I do in these cases is boot to a "live CD" such as Mint
> or another Knoppix-like release, then mount the Linux partition, and copy
> /home/ME to a USB-attached external device, such as a disk or flash drive
> that's big enough to hold the data. With some distributions, you could
> even burn your home directory to a DVD. I also recommend not worrying
> about copying anything other than Documents, etc. Settings are pretty easy
> to recreate, actually, and you get to use the functionality of the new OS
> better that way, too.
> BETWEEN COMPUTER IN SD AND SOME USB"S I LIKELY HAVE HOME
DIRECTORY BACKED UP- SO MAYBE I'LL GAMBLE.

Thanks again for your help on this- best wishes,Marshall








> Good luck.
>
> Karl
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Rick Stevens" <ricks at nerd.com>
>> To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 8:10 AM
>> Subject: Re: This is just amazing...
>>
>>
>>> On 09/02/2010 10:35 PM, Karl Pearson wrote:
>>>> That was Rick responding to someone who joined the group for the sole
>>>> purpose of advertising a new social networking site that isn't on my
>>>> list
>>>> of possibilities.
>>>>
>>>> I think that's what it was.
>>>
>>> Yup., that's what it was.  I may bounce the twit off the list.
>>>
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