<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thanks for the tips, I will try them. As I mentioned in my original email, when I tried fixmbr in recovery console under XP I got so many dire warnings about doing it I chickened out. I can't afford to lose my Windows disk. (At the very least I'll have to do some backups first. Maybe I should do that anyway... ;-) ). I'll try the linux rescue, chroot /mnt/sysimage thing again (I've installed Mandrake again but will install FC4 again to try it) but last time it told me there was a problem with /hdb1 not having a valid BIOS something, I will take note of the full message next time. I know Windows is on /hda, /boot was on /hdb1, swap was on /hdb5 and root (/) was on /hdb6. I think that's how it went anyway. I'll do it again and make notes this time. I know it's difficult to diagnose problems with sketchy information. Thanks again, Ian <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:akonstam@trinity.edu">akonstam@trinity.edu</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20050920135239.GB17425@Moof.CS.Trinity.Edu" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 06:59:02AM -0400, Jim Cornette wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Ian wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Jim, Thanks for the response. My problem is, though, that I can't boot FC4 at all, because grub didn't get installed when I reinstalled FC4. The master boot record still contains lilo from my install of Mandrake, and it won't boot FC4. So I have no way of changing any grub settings. I think they call it stuck between a rock and a hard place... Ian </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> An easy way to wipe out the MBR information is by booting up a startup disk for the w9x series OS and typing "fdisk /MBR". This wipes out grub or lilo from the master boot record. A DOS boot disk with fdisk on it should do the same, using "fdisk /mbr" XP uses the recovery console and I believe you type fixmbr to clear the mbr. To clear the MBR in Linux, I don't know how to do this. There is probably a utility to clear the MBR somewhere. Jim </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Another way to do it is: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1 bc=446 or: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 bc=1 But I don't understand why you can't boot with linux rescue, chroot to your FC4 root partition (chroot /mnt/sysimage) and run grub-install Obviously hda might be hdb or sda, etc. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>