5.2-RC1 messes up MBR

Niraj Kumar niraj.x.kumar at oracle.com
Tue Dec 16 03:44:07 PST 2003


I faced the same problem on a Dell GX 270 .
.......had to reinstall GRUB.
Niraj


Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>Despite saying "none" in the bootloader part of sysinstall, the
>installation seems to have done something to the MBR of my laptop.  On
>booting, I got neither lilo nor FreeBSD's booteasy, but some garbage
>characters and a hang; I needed to boot a livecd and re-run lilo to
>fix this.
>
>Rahul
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