linux boot recovery

[william_holt at speakeasy.net (Bill Holt)]

For grub users;
get yourself to another linux system:

cd /usr/share/grub/i386-pc

now make a raw boot floppy:  

dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1

boot with the disk and enter these three commands:
(note * I am assuming winME is first, swap second, extX third, adjust accordingly, also your kernel is probably called vmlinuz-2.something)

root (hd0,2)

kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3

boot

Now once you have your system booted, go to /usr/share/grub and run:

grub-install /dev/hda

(note * I am assuming your first ide disk 'hda')