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Ive recently decided to install linux (fedora core) on my system, and have it dual booting with windows. Ive installed all the default bootloader programs. Its working fine. However, i will inevitably have to reinstall windows at sometime in the future.
When i do this, won't windows overwrite the current boot information and mean i can't boot into linux? How do i prevent this?
I can create a boot cd, but do not have a working floppy drive.
Thats right. Boot with slackware and say grubconfig.
In Fedora, may be you could boot in rescue mode and say grub-install.
But I had a weird one while rescuing grub once in my friend's computer. I am going to get blasted for this, but here it comes anyway. WinXP did not overwrite the bootloader. It commented (!) the grub.conf file where it said boot from hda. On uncommenting, it started to show the grub menu, with fedora and xp in it.
Originally posted by bisky131 Ive recently decided to install linux (fedora core) on my system, and have it dual booting with windows. Ive installed all the default bootloader programs. Its working fine. However, i will inevitably have to reinstall windows at sometime in the future.
When i do this, won't windows overwrite the current boot information and mean i can't boot into linux? How do i prevent this?
I can create a boot cd, but do not have a working floppy drive.
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. WinXP did not overwrite the bootloader. It commented (!) the grub.conf file where it said boot from hda. On uncommenting, it started to show the grub menu, with fedora and xp in it.
