On 8/27/05, Thomas Springer <th.springer@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Do you have a rescue cd. Maybe your install medium for Mandriva > provides this just like fc4-disk1. > > (Experimental) > I am really not sure if this works, but you could mount the mandriva > boot partition in FC4: > > # mkdir /mandriva > # mount /dev/hdb1 /mandriva > > and see there. > > This depends on an existing device node and my correct imagination of > your partition table. Thanks again, Thomas. Your experimental idea worked fine to find the (version), but the booting in Mandriva was not successful. However, I used partially your other idea: I used my Mandriva installation dvd to rescue Mandriva and now I have the previous bootloader working, which is simpler than grub. Paul