techquilla Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 i kinda have to format and reinstall my windowsxp partition but i don't want to install gentoo again. so how do i create a boot disk that'll allow me to boot into gentoo again after i reinstalled windows in order to setup grub again...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 If you've got your LiveCD, just pop that in, once you're in: #mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/gentoo #mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/gentoo/boot #mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc #chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash #grub grub> root(hd0,X) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit #exit #umount /mnt/gentoo/boot proc /mnt/gentoo #reboot Fill in the correct numbers for the X's of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techquilla Posted February 8, 2004 Author Share Posted February 8, 2004 so i don't need a boot floopy then... right...>? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 so i don't need a boot floopy then... right...>? Not unless you don't like the LiveCD ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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