Re: MBR problem

[Phillip Susi]

Yes, if the MBR really was damaged, you would not be able to boot from 
the drive, so this does not make much sense.  Where exactly do you see 
this message about the MBR and what exactly does it say?

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi
>
>       I have problem and I would like to confirm with you that this is the
> solution that I found on the Internet. A virus apparently did something to
> my MBR because when I boot up it says cannot read MBR boot sector disk
> problem. Now, what is different from everybody else on the intenet is that
> I can boot to my Linux no problem and safe boot to my windows 2000. It
> seems to me that if i had a MBR problem that I could not boot up either
> one.
>
> One solution I found is that execute the following
>
> grub-install --root-directory=/boot  /dev/hda5
>
>
> Do you concur ?
>
>
> Thank You for your help