Rescue from a floppy?

[Pierre-Yves Berger]

On 21 juil. 04, at 15:24, 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
>
>

There is always the option of booting with Smart Boot Manager ( 
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ )
on a floppy and picking the CD for the rest of the boot. I used it to 
install FC2 on older systems
that could not boot on CD.

Regards,
Pierre-Yves