Another Dual boot question

[chen li]

Hi,

I followed the method described here but my computer
still went to windows XP after rebooting dirctly.  
No Grub manu showed up.

Li

--- Kostas Sfakiotakis <kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr>
wrote:

> 
> Greetings Arne ,
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Arne Drechsler" <listrx at onlinehome.de>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases"
> <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 11:12 AM
> Subject: Another Dual boot question
> 
> 
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I have windows on first partition, FC4 on 2.,3.,4.
> partition. All on a
> > 250GB disk. Grub is boot loader.
> > Can i reinstall windows without overwriting Grub ?
> 
> No . The Windows XP Installation proccess will
> overwrite the Grub Bootstrap 
> loader
> and only that .
> 
> Or do i have to  reinstall Grub after Windows
> installation ?
> Yes you do have to reinstall grub after the Windows
> Installation , but that 
> shouldn't be
> a problem .
>  IS there some docu about  this already ?
> 
> Probably . If you search the archives of this very
> list you might find the 
> proccess described
> again . It goes something like this :
> 
> 1. After the Windows installation finishes
> gracefully . Boot with the First 
> CD of your
>    Linux Installation be it Fedora Core [1 ..4 ] or
> whatever .
> 2. Type linux rescue . The rescue proccess will try
> to locate your Linux 
> Installation and
>     if everything goes well then it will find your
> linux installation .
> 3. After your Linux installation is found you will
> be dropped to a shell 
> and your linux installation
>    will be mounted under /mnt/sysimage (  I think
> you are asked if you wish 
> to do so and there
>    you must answer yes .
> 4. At the shell prompt you should enter
>    #chroot /mnt/sysimage
> 5. After that you will be chrooted to your linux
> installation . At which 
> point you should type
>    #grub-install  /dev/hda1 . Then it should report
> that grub install 
> finished without errors
> 6. At the shell prompt again you should type
>    #exit   ( Exits the chrooted enviroment )
>    #exit   ( This will reboot your machine , be ware
> not to boot from the 
> cd again )
> 
> That should do it . If everything has gone well you
> should now have your 
> grub boot menu
> with two options availabe . The first one should
> boot your linux 
> installation whereas the
> second one usually labeled "DOS"  would be your XP
> installation . Those 
> labels can be
> changed to whatever your like . /boot/grub/grub.conf
> is where the boot menu 
> relies ,
> you can change the title line to whatever you see
> fit but leave the rest as 
> it is .
> 
> 
> Kind Regards,
>   Kostas
> 
> > Thanks in advance
> > Arne
> >
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