[H-GEN] Boot selector for Debian

[Christopher Biggs]

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Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

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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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