Booting HD without grub

[Eli Marmor]

Thank you Shlomi.
No success, so far.
I'll give more details, so if anybody can help, I'll be grateful.
I'm also willing to bring the system to anywhere and/or pay:

I have a full Linux system (old Mandrake) on hdd4, including /boot/vmlinuz,
/boot/initrd.img, etc. (all the system on one partition).
It has been booted for years from another disk.
The file system is correct (according to fsck), and mountable (when the
computer is booted from a live-CD).
All I want is to boot it once, manually, without writing any MBR, but from
a live CD.
Any live-CD and grub has its own limitations, for example some of them
can't reach hd3,4 (although they can mount hdd4!).
I believe that for some of you it's a matter of minutes.

Anybody can help?

Thanks a lot,
Eli Marmor


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Eli,
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Eli Marmor <eli at netmask.it> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an old PC (with an old Mandrake), and its grub screwed up.
>> I want to boot it WITHOUT re-installing the grub (I don't want to touch
>> the HD till I see it works again, but boot it manually from a
>> Live-CD/floppy).
>> How can I do it from a Live-CD or floppy?  (both work under this PC).
>> What Live-CD/floppy is recommended for this purpose?
>> Can I do it from the boot prompt?
>>
>
> The GRUB command prompt allows you to enter any arbitrary GRUB command and
> boot the machine however you like. So if the LiveCD contains a working GRUB
> installation, you can use the GRUB command prompt there to boot it like you
> would boot from the hard disk.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Shlomi Fish
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eli Marmor
>>
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