How to reinstall Grub after a win install ?

yavorsky gaetan gaetan.yavorsky at easy-france.com
Wed Apr 28 10:08:53 UTC 2004


neil a écrit :

>
>
> Salvatore Di Nardo wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 10:00, yavorsky gaetan wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>For a test I had to install a window$ on my server, on a separate drive 
>>>( but on the same ctl ).
>>>Of course, now,  the boot loader is the BillGates'one.
>>>As I previously used the megaraid driver , I couldn't make a FC1 boot disk.
>>>Running the FC1 CD-1, I can go into rescue mode, and my "old" system is 
>>>mounted on /mnt/sysimage.
>>>I can acces /mnt/sysimage/boot
>>>But now ?
>>>Regards
>>>Gaetan
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>this might work:
>>
>>1) Enter in rescue mode with your CDROM
>>
>>2) chroot /mnt/sys.."something" ( where u will find your existing linux)
>>
>>3) type grub and enter
>>
>>4) reboot
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> Yeah - It'll be chroot /mnt/sysimage/
> you'll need to run grub-install. This will replace the first 512bytes 
> of your primary disk with the grub bootloader.
>
> You'll be able to access your windows slice (but I would recommend not 
> doing that ;-)) by editing grub to point to it your dos slice. You'll 
> need these options - obviously change (hd0,0) to point to your windows 
> slice:
>
> title MyTechnicallyInferiorOperatingShambles
>  rootnoverify (hd0,0)  
>  chainloader +1
>
> neil

Thanks
Gaetan





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