fixing/reinstalling grub

[Kumara]

Congratulations Mark!

I had many of this type of  late nights in the past.
We may have this problem until we give up M$ completely.
anyway you are back to business.

Thanks and good luck!
Mohan



----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Weaver" <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: fixing/reinstalling grub


> James Wilkinson wrote:
> > Kumara wrote:
> >
> >>first put M$ then, FC
> >>then you could sleep well
> >>i always do that order
> >
> >
> > Which is good advice.
> >
> > Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> >>I normally do it that way as well, however this time Fedora is already
> >>loaded and configured which is why I needed to know how to repair the
> >>grub bootloader after installing Windows.
> >
> >
> > It's worth noting that if you copy the MBR that grub writes to disk to a
> > bootsect.lnx file (and put it where Windows can see it), you can
> > integrate that file with the standard Windows XP bootloader.
> >
> > http://www.icculus.org/~lucasw/Linux/Linux%20and%20XP%20Bootloading.html
> > under "XP Bootloader" gives a good rundown of what's needed.
> >
> > It's also worth noting that you can write the grub MBR to a floppy, and
> > boot from floppy.
> >
> > Good luck: I suspect that you may have to end up re-installing
> > everything anyway. To the best of my knowledge, the WinXP install needs
> > to be able to write the bootloader files to the currently active
> > (bootable) primary partition, which means that it has to be FAT, FAT32,
> > or NTFS.
> >
> > James.
> >
>
> Hi James,
>
> That is indeed exactly what happened last night. XP flatly refused to be
> the second thing on the disk. it was a very late night last night.
> windows installation is SO slow compared to fedora. Once windows was in
> though I reloaded fedora and then spent a few hours updating and went to
> bed; finished the fedora restore this morning and all is well again.
>
> this has been an extremely informative thread though. AWESOME info.
>
> thanks all!  :)
>
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