MBR was destroyed

[seorge]

I've just submitted a bug (3889) about destroyed MBR and Dustin Navea asked me 
to subscribe to this list.
Here comes some detailed description:

As a regular user I've launched winecfg as a regular user, then proceeded to 
the dist setup. I've tried several options like automatic configuration, 
manual configuration. Then I've tried to change some drive letters manually. 
After reboot a "PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT" message appeared instead of a GRUB 
screen.
Next time I booted with grub-floppy and then restored the MBR with 
grub-install /dev/hda.
Please let me know what additional information you need.
It's happend on Slackware 10.2 system, 2.6.14 kernel with ck-3 patches.

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 08:49:12 +0100, seorge  wrote:
> As a regular user I've launched winecfg as a regular user, then proceeded
> to
> the dist setup. I've tried several options like automatic configuration,
> manual configuration. Then I've tried to change some drive letters
> manually.

could you be more precise? what is "dist setup" , what links did you  
create?

You should probably try to reproduce this in a more controlled way to  
establish that it was wine that removed grub.

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:49:12AM +0100, seorge wrote:
> I've just submitted a bug (3889) about destroyed MBR and Dustin Navea asked me 
> to subscribe to this list.

Whatever will happen during this discussion (hopefully this problem will get fixed!),
you should definitely install a new MBR there and then run a Linux boot CD with something
like testdisk or similar (qparted or so?) on it in order to restore a proper partition table
in your first HDD sector...

Andreas Mohr