Dual-Boot/XP Crash

[Mark Neidorff]

Here's an outline:
1. Make a fedora boot diskette.
2. Make sure it works!
3. Repair/reinstall (whatever) XP
4. Boot with floppy
5. as root run:  #/sbin/grub-install /dev/xxxx
    where the xxxx is the device you boot from.


On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Gary Waters wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I changed my motherboard, CPU, and Videocard. I previously posted my
> intentions and queried as to whether or not Fedora would survive the
> transition, which it did....with flying colors. However, windows XP did
> NOT. I'm now looking to repair or reinstall XP so my daughter won't
> drive me nuts over not being able to play her games.
> 
> Could somebody point me to a FAQ on how to do this and restore grub? The
> man pages are somewhat vague. I really don't want to lose this fedora
> installation. I spent a lot of time fine-tuning it. I did some googling
> on the matter, but I would feel much more secure with whatever
> suggestions this list has to offer. Thanks.
> 
> Gary
> 

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