Not able to boot Fedora 2 after ghosting XP

[Wolfgang Gill]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:11:11 +1000, Carl Nicholls wrote
> I will explain stetup, machine has 3 harddrives "disk 0(C) is all XP", "disk 1(G) is all ghost of XP", "disk 2 is all linux", the ghost I fixed XP with was done before I installed Fedora Core 2 , after ghosting the linux installation is OK on its own harddrive but the boot choice has gone, and starts into XP by default, I can enter rescue mode in Linux by using original installation DVD I downloaded.  I tried by using Grub prompt to grub-install /dev/hdc. message was "unrecognized command". I do not know enough about Linux to do anymore, one way is to reinstall but this is not me I want to repair.  
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> Carl Nicholls

For the Grub-install command to work. Once you booted into rescue mode. CD (Change directory) to the boot/grub directory. Then issue that command. It doesn't matter which drive Linux is located on, since it will have to put the Boot information on the first drive. When you ghosted the WinXP stuff back to the first drive, that information would have been destroyed.  And since you already had it working before the ghosting, the grub.conf file will still retain the boot information relating the where the linux/windows drives are. This command simply puts the Grub information back onto the main boot drive. There is no need to reinstall.

Wolf
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