Hi there,

This question relates to Grub and MBR. Just to let you know before you go through the entire story.

I kind of messed up my hard drives and need any assitance that you can provide. This is what i did.

I had 1 Hard drive with win2k pro on it.
I bought another Hard drive and installed win2k again on it. Partitioned it with 15Gb and 25Gb. Both partitions are NTFS. I installed all this with the second drive as master WITHOUT conencting the 1st one. Now i installed both the hard drives. I rebooted and everything worked fine. I can see the new hard drive partitions as H and I. Now i wanted to install Redhat Linux 8.0. I rebooted my system with bootable linux CD. Installed linux on the 15Gb partition, without formatting any more. Created a bootable floppy, just in case. And then rebooted my system. Somehow, instead of me getting a Grub menu that said Dos, Linux selection. I got the "grub" prompt. I kind of panicked at this time. Because this is the first time i had my encounter with Grub. I have been into linux only for a few months now. And Have installed Linux at least 9 times. But this is the first time i faced with such a situation.

Having panicked, i searched through to find out more info on this. I learnt that we could load another Os by using the following.

rootnoverify
setup
chainloader

But was unable to boot Linux from this prompt. So, i have been doing it using the boot floppy. But since booting win2k was a painful task, i thought of messing my HD further more. I then found a third party Boot loader that i installed. Which of course changed my MBR. I then rebooted and i found this new menu from this third party installation which showed NT but failed to show linux. Which it said is supported on their web site. Now i am kind of stuck.

My question is.
How to repair Grub to show the grub menu with Dos(win2k) and linux. I tried to search through quite a lot of forums and help, but could not get any further. I have tried a looooot and have finally given up.

If someone has any thoughts please do share. Please do let me know if you want to have more info.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
KK

You can boot into the linux rescue mode off your CD, and it will give you a command prompt. It will also mount your linux filesystem for you. If it does not you can mount it here. Then you will be able to edit you grub.conf This conf stores all the boot parameter. It is located /boot/grub/grub.conf
You can change all the parameters of boot from this.