RH 9 dual boot problem

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Mathur, Sachin  (UMKC-Student) wrote:

> boot from thelinux cd and try to upgrade any kernel package. You should
> find an option to fiddle with the boot loader for it to give you an
> option for the dual boot.

Or try grub-install(8).

Or read the info files for grub.  It's not too hard to get grub
reinstalled to your satisfaction, but I don't have a step-by-step
procedure handy.

BTW, on my dual-boot machines, I tend to like to install grub in the boot
record for the /boot partition and set /boot active with fdisk.  That
avoids the problem of having Windows overwriting it every reinstall.
After reinstalling Windows, one just needs to run fdisk and set /boot
active again to have grub work.

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> Sachin
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> From: Billy Davis [mailto:bdavis at cds-corp.com]
> Sent: Mon 4/12/2004 11:36 AM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RH 9 dual boot problem
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> I am trying to set up a dual boot RH 9 workstation.  I made the
> mistake of loading RH 9 first, and then loading Windows XP.
> Now, Windows ALWAYS boots, and I can only get RH to
> run by booting from a floppy.  When I installed RH, I set GRUB
> up to allow either Windows or RH to be selected, but Windows
> must have overwritten the MBR.  Is there an easy way to restore
> the RH boot record back into the MBR, other than reloading
> RH again??
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> Thanks
> BDavis
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		Matthew Saltzman

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