Linux and windows install
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Mar 16 09:46:45 UTC 2005
Francois wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 March 2005 13:37, Francois wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:37 +0100, Francois wrote:
>>
>>>- What do I have to install first ? Windows XP or Linux FC3 ?
>>
>>The MBR. This will make sure that Grub is the first thing you see upon
>>booting, so that you can select which OS you want to start.
>>
>>All in all, I'd recommend this: Make the 40 GB hD the primary master and
>>the 80 GB HD the primary slave (or better secondary master) on your IDE
>>bus. First install Windows on the 40 GB thingy, then - after this is
>>working - install Fedora on the 80 GB drive. Let Grub install itself
>>into the MBR and everything should work fine.
>
>
> I did that, but I did a mistake :-(
>
> I've install Win XP on the first HD, then FC3 on the second HD, but when I
> replied to install the bootloader, instead of putting it on the MBR of the
> FIRST HD, I put it on the MBR of the second one, where Linux is just
> installed ;-(
> I should have choosen the MBR of the first HD.
> Now how do I do erase the MBR on the second HD, then reinstall the boot
> loader on the MBR of the first HD ?
>
> I've tried to restart a new install of linux. Then I 've asked to put the
> boot loader on the first hd, but it gave me nothing. I guess I should do
> that from linux. ??
Boot using the rescue CD, get to the command prompt and then run:
# chroot /mnt/sysimage
# grub-install /dev/hda
Paul.
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