Greetings Arne ,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arne Drechsler" <listrx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
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
--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
