[H-GEN] Boot selector for Debian

[Greg Black]

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I have a new DVD in my laptop, so I was able to re-install
Windows in its little partition (fortunately without blowing
away my Debian installation on the major part of the disk).

Unfortunately, I'm left without a boot selector.  I can boot
Windows off the disk; I can boot Debian off a rescue floppy
telling it to boot from /dev/hda2.  But I really want a little
thing at boot that offers me a choice of OS to boot.  If did try
to see what MBR was installed, but this was unrewarding:

    # install-mbr -l -v /dev/hda
    Copying code from /dev/hda
    install-mbr:/dev/hda: Failed to find MBR signature.

If anybody has any suggestions for solving this, preferably that
don't endanger the data on the disk, I'd be most grateful for a
clue so that I don't have to keep booting from floppy ...

Greg

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