[NTLUG:Discuss] Grub assistance

[Richard]

Tom Hayden wrote:
> <snip> The safest way around that is to back up your Linux disk (at 
> least the data), remove the Windows disk, reformat the Linux disk, 
> reinstall Linux and then restore your data. <snip>

OUCH!  "..reformat the Linux disk,"  just because there is no MBR on the 
disk??  That's HARSH!  (Not to mention a lot of work and risk to try to 
get things back to the way they were.)

Surely my poor ancient LILO isn't THAT much better than grub!??!  I 
thought grub was the new up and coming end-all be-all of loaders?

The great mystic, Google, hints at running "grub-install /dev/hdb"   
Does something like that work in grub?

-- 
Richard