Restoring grub

[Alex Snow]

I guess I'm lucky I've never done the dual-boot thing. I always have 
had separate boxes for linux and taht other os.
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 
at 09:40:00PM -0700, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>      Maybe you should consider it a good thing that WinXP messed up 
> once again and try to live without it.  But if you must have it, do this.  
> First, at a shell prompt, type mkbootdisk <kernel_version>.  I have the 
> latest Fedora Speakup kernel, so I'd say:
> mkbootdisk 2.4.22-2f.nptlspk2
> Actually, you can change directory to /lib/modules.
> If you have only one kernel installed, just type mkbootdisk <tab>, where 
> <tab> is the tab key and backspace over the /.  Next, reinstall the ugly.  
> Using the bootdisk to 
> get back into Linux, do:
> grub-install /dev/hda
> This assumes that you're booting from the master disk on the first 
> controller.
>           HTH.
> -- 
> 
> 
> Bill in Denver
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Darragh wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have to reinstall windows xp but the first thing it'll do is put its boot information into the master boot record.  how can I
> > 
> > 1 create a boot disk for Fedira
> > 
> > 2 restore Grub so I get the boot up screen that I get now?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for any help
> > 
> > 
> > Darragh
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