Hi, I followed the method described here but my computer still went to windows XP after rebooting dirctly. No Grub manu showed up. Li --- Kostas Sfakiotakis <kostassf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/
