On Thursday July 1, 2004 at 11:18 a.m. "James Marcinek"
<jmarc1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> I have a duel boot system with Fedora 2 and Windows XP installed. Now
> forgive me ahead of time. I was using GRUB as my bootloader and
> was running fine until last night when I upgraded my Windows XP to XP
> pro. The Windows XP pro upgrade must have overwritten my MBR. How
> should I go about putting GRUB back into play. I would like to keep my
> existing linux install if possible.
James
Use CD #1 or your Rescue CD (whatever works) and run:
# grub-install /dev/hda
on whatever hard disk (hda, sda, ...) your system boots from. This will
overwrite the Windows MBR with Grub's and you'll be back in business.
--Doc
Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
Fedora Core 1 kernel 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl on P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
"Perfection is the enemy of good enough."
-- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov
