Grub paper

[Karl Larsen]

    I was working on a Grub paper after looking at around 20 existing 
papers. They all used a floppy disk which is no longer around. Here is 
where I am now. Should I continue?



    Looking over ALL writing on Grub to date I find use of a floppy disk 
being given lots of space in the paper, as if it is hard. It was easy at 
least back in 1999 when I first tried it.

    Today the most usual Grub use should be from the Fedora rescue disk. 
This covers the condition where you re-loaded windows and now Grub does 
not work. This used to be handled by the floppy.

    When your using Grub with the rescue disk do NOT mount the system 
you want to use Grub calls for. Just come up with the simple login which 
is a root and do the root and Grub things you need. To start Grub just 
type grub. You are in the special Grub window now. To leave this window 
type quit.

    The Linux fdisk is a reliable way to find out what the hard drives 
are called. This is up to your computers BIOS and it is often difficult 
to change. So assume that at least one hard drive is Drive 0, or 
/dev/sda. To see which one this is use "fdisk /dev/sda" and if it exists 
it will wait for a command. If it doesn't it will complain.

    Use a p in the place for input. This Prints a copy of your hard 
drive layout. From this you can see everything so remember windows is 
always in the first partition of the first hard drive.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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