Restoring grub

[Alex Snow]

the one thing I like about linux browsing is I don't get any popups, 
nor any activex crap that automatically installs software without my 
knowing.
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:15:26AM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.  I've been free from Windows for 3 years.  I was surprised how much
> trouble a Windows user had just doing a google search.  Maybe web access
> is better in Windows, but it no longer seems that way to me.  I don't
> have to jump through all the hoops a Windows screen reader user needs to
> do to get web access to a simple text sight.
> 
>           Kenny
> 	  
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:28:51AM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> > I still prefer to brows the web in windows. I just don't like the 
> > linux web browsers. that will hopefully change when mozilla becomes 
> > accessible.On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:01:05AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > Darragh writes:
> > > > I think web browsing still has a long way to go before I would do it in
> > > > linux all the time.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I know people say this, but my experience is quite the opposite. Of
> > > course, there are pages that don't work accessibly in Linux, but many of
> > > those pages also don't work in Windows. I say that because I've tried
> > > them both ways.
> > > 
> > > So, yes all that javascript may not be accessible with links, but a lot
> > > of it doesn't work with IE either.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Darragh
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209" <wacker at octothorp.org>
> > > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 4:40 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: Restoring grub
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > >      Maybe you should consider it a good thing that WinXP messed up
> > > > > once again and try to live without it.  But if you must have it, do this.
> > > > > First, at a shell prompt, type mkbootdisk <kernel_version>.  I have the
> > > > > latest Fedora Speakup kernel, so I'd say:
> > > > > mkbootdisk 2.4.22-2f.nptlspk2
> > > > > Actually, you can change directory to /lib/modules.
> > > > > If you have only one kernel installed, just type mkbootdisk <tab>, where
> > > > > <tab> is the tab key and backspace over the /.  Next, reinstall the ugly.
> > > > > Using the bootdisk to
> > > > > get back into Linux, do:
> > > > > grub-install /dev/hda
> > > > > This assumes that you're booting from the master disk on the first
> > > > > controller.
> > > > >           HTH.
> > > > > --
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Bill in Denver
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Darragh wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have to reinstall windows xp but the first thing it'll do is put its
> > > > boot information into the master boot record.  how can I
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1 create a boot disk for Fedira
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 2 restore Grub so I get the boot up screen that I get now?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks for any help
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Darragh
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> > > -- 
> > > 	
> > > Janina Sajka
> > > Email: janina at rednote.net		
> > > Phone: (202) 408-8175
> > > 
> > > Director, Technology Research and Development
> > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
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