Rescue from a floppy?

Lemke, Wesley Wesley.Lemke at LibertyMutual.com
Wed Jul 21 13:30:58 UTC 2004


I think it's related to my system.  Because I can't boot from the Win XP
media either...

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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Farmer
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 8:29 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Rescue from a floppy?


Lemke, Wesley wrote:
> I currently have FC2 installed.  I am about to install Win XP on a 
> second drive.  I have GRUB installed to the MBR.  I am assuming that 
> XP will overwrite GRUB.  I have an FC2 rescue CD, but for some strange

> reason, my computer will no longer boot from the CD.  Is there a way 
> that I can get GRUB back into the MBR after I install XP?  Some sort 
> of rescue floppy?
> 
> I know the FC2 kernel is too big to fit on a floppy, but is there 
> another option?
> 
> Thank in advance,
> Wes
> 
> 

I had troubles with booting from a cd that worked previously, I've got
around it 
before by makeing a new cd, do you still have the .iso image? If not try
copying the 
existing cd.

Mark Farmer RHCT
Linux Server Administrator


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