Kostas Sfakiotakis 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 >> > Thanks a lot guys !!! Arne.
