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Old 05-15-2007, 09:48 PM   #1
germansailor
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Unhappy Grub Help winxp screwed


Hi I have windows Xp and fedora core 6...My win xp is not working so i want to reinstall it now...
So xp as it always does will overwrite the MBR....now wat can i do to install grub in mbr again...I have the Fc6 rescue cd
My grub file looks like this

1 # grub.conf generated by anaconda
2 #
3 # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
4 # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
5 # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
6 # root (hd0,10)
7 # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda11
8 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
9 #boot=/dev/hda
10 default=2
11 timeout=7
12 splashimage=(hd0,10)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
13 hiddenmenu
14 title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2944.fc6)
15 root (hd0,10)
16 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
17 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.img
18 title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
19 root (hd0,10)
20 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
21 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
22 title Windows Xp Sp2
23 rootnoverify (hd0,0)
24 chainloader +1




Please Help
Thanx in advance
 
Old 05-15-2007, 10:02 PM   #2
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recover XP

Have you tried doing the windows xp recovery? that would save you from the lilo delima.
 
  


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