Rescue Mode?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sun Dec 31 20:54:06 UTC 2006


Amichai Rotman wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> A friend of mine decided he wants to make the move to Linux.
> 
> I gave him one of the CDs I ordered from Canonical's Ship-It (Ubuntu
> 6.06). He tried to install it over the weekend.
> 
> He has WinXP installed and he wants Ubuntu to co-exist (for now...) on a
> second Hard Drive.
> 
> While installing he managed to mess up the partition table and now he
> can't access the Linux box....
> 
> I don't have all the details, but actually, what I wanted to ask was: How
> do I boot the LiveCD to Rescue Mode? How do I wipe the MBR (fdisk /mbr?)
> and re-install the GRUB Boot Loader?

Google?  Search the archive.  It's been answered many ways in at least two
threads, here, in the last two weeks.
-- 
derek





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