knoppix and mbr fun

Here is how much fun you can have with knoppix and mbr:

1. To screw your mbr, run

   knx-hdinstall

   and elect to install lilo into your mbr. Now this might just be me, but lilo won't install, complaining something about my video card, and device 0xf00000 which I did not commit to memory.
   
   
2. To fix your mbr, run
   

   cfdisk

   as root by typing

   su

   find your bootable partition, and simply do
   

   install-mbr -e <partitions> 
   
                     /dev/<your master hard drive>

   
   Only works for IDE as far as I know. For me, it was partition 1 and 3, and thus the invocation was:
   

   install-mbr -e 13 /dev/hda

   For more informaton,

   man install-mbr

Here endth the lesson.

In other news, a nice boot manager is bootman in beos. It also has an easter egg. Hit 'M' when selecting your OS, and be prepared for a epileptic fit of the fractal variety.

Back to the bat cave!
Steve