Rescue from a floppy?

[Mark Farmer]

Pierre-Yves Berger wrote:
> 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?

You could boot from a gentoo live cd, mount the partitions that hold /boot & / then 
chroot in and go to a grub prompt and reinstall the mbr that way. Knoppix cd would do 
it too I think, it's just that I know Gentoo.

Mark Farmer RHCT
Linux Server Administrator