Journey's End

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