Congratulations Mark! I had many of this type of late nights in the past. We may have this problem until we give up M$ completely. anyway you are back to business. Thanks and good luck! Mohan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Weaver" <mdw1982@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 6:22 PM Subject: Re: fixing/reinstalling grub > James Wilkinson wrote: > > Kumara wrote: > > > >>first put M$ then, FC > >>then you could sleep well > >>i always do that order > > > > > > Which is good advice. > > > > Mark Weaver wrote: > > > >>I normally do it that way as well, however this time Fedora is already > >>loaded and configured which is why I needed to know how to repair the > >>grub bootloader after installing Windows. > > > > > > It's worth noting that if you copy the MBR that grub writes to disk to a > > bootsect.lnx file (and put it where Windows can see it), you can > > integrate that file with the standard Windows XP bootloader. > > > > http://www.icculus.org/~lucasw/Linux/Linux%20and%20XP%20Bootloading.html > > under "XP Bootloader" gives a good rundown of what's needed. > > > > It's also worth noting that you can write the grub MBR to a floppy, and > > boot from floppy. > > > > Good luck: I suspect that you may have to end up re-installing > > everything anyway. To the best of my knowledge, the WinXP install needs > > to be able to write the bootloader files to the currently active > > (bootable) primary partition, which means that it has to be FAT, FAT32, > > or NTFS. > > > > James. > > > > Hi James, > > That is indeed exactly what happened last night. XP flatly refused to be > the second thing on the disk. it was a very late night last night. > windows installation is SO slow compared to fedora. Once windows was in > though I reloaded fedora and then spent a few hours updating and went to > bed; finished the fedora restore this morning and all is well again. > > this has been an extremely informative thread though. AWESOME info. > > thanks all! :) > > -- > Mark > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) > Linux User Since 1996 > Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & RH Fedora Core 3 > ICQ# 27816299 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >
