Journeys' End: knoppix and mbr fun

Here is how much fun you can have with knoppix and mbr:

To screw your mbr, run
```
knx-hdinstall
```
and elect to install lilo into your mbr. Now this might just be me, but lilo won't install, complaining something about my video card, and device 0xf00000 which I did not commit to memory.
To fix your mbr, run
```
cfdisk
```
as root by typing
```
su
```
find your bootable partition, and simply do
```
install-mbr -e <partitions> 
                  /dev/<your master hard drive>
```
Only works for IDE as far as I know. For me, it was partition 1 and 3, and thus the invocation was:
```
install-mbr -e 13 /dev/hda
```
For more informaton,
```
man install-mbr
```

Here endth the lesson. In other news, a nice boot manager is bootman in beos. It also has an easter egg. Hit 'M' when selecting your OS, and be prepared for a epileptic fit of the fractal variety. Back to the bat cave! Steve

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