fixing/reinstalling grub

[Mark Weaver]

Hi All,

In the midst of a migration away from a proprietary Dell box into a nice 
new ATX box I've run into a few problems. The only things from the dell 
box that went into the ATX box were of course my hard drives and a CD 
writer. Fedora orginally came up beautifully when I first booted the 
box. AMAZING job that the developers have done with this distro.

However, its a dual boot system and Windows XP lives on the drive as 
well. While I was attempting to get the "other" OS to boot I torched the 
bootloader and after doing battle with it for a time decided to simply 
reload. After all.. its a workstation and I had all critical data files 
backed up.

Here's where it gets interesting...

My Dell restore CD for WinXP won't work on this box. no surprise, so in 
order to get things running again I loaded FC3 so I'd be able to work. 
Its the first thing on the drive living where WinXP "had" lived before. 
/dev/hda1. I've always "heard" that windows prefers to be the first OS 
on the drive but that isn't how things worked out this time. So my 
question in this:

Since Windows will be the second OS on the system and installing it will 
  wipe out the MBR and bootloader, (grub) how do I restore the 
bootloader once the windows installation is complete?

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Mark
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