i have a machine, dual boot, between win98 and RH9. so, i was installed my grub into the MBR in win98.

it works fine for me all this while. when i start the machine it appears a screen to let me choose the os.

yesterday, i have to upgrade my win98 to winxp. thru the installation, winxp has rewrite my MBR. now, i dun have GRUB when it is booted. i know my RH9 still in my harddrive. the thing is that i don't how to invoke it now.

how am i going to do to invoke my grub and boot my RH9? pls advise. thanks in advance!

Cheers,
yenonn

Didn't you make a bootdisk? I only use LILO, but you just boot with the floppy and run LILO again. I guess grub is the same.

If you didn't, see about downloading one from the RH site or get tomsrtbt or something. Good luck.

yes i have one with me. (always get ready to go) . then, how? what to continue?

i have booted in just now. thanks... but then, i want back my grub in the booting time. i miss my grub a lot. how to get it back? and don't tell me that, i need the linux boot disk in order to invoke my RH. there must be somehow the solution over there....how???? help me!!!!!!

Good deal. Well, like I say, I only know LILO but I'd just type 'lilo' at the prompt. Try 'man grub' and see what it says - or just try 'grub'. *g* It should permanently reinstall it.

This is assuming your... I guess 'grub.conf' didn't get messed up. If it did, just rewrite it to boot RH and Win98.

i dont see typing "grub" will work. it yields me: "kernel cannot find image for grub". then, i try "man grub". it yields me again: "kernel cannot find image man".
when i boot using the linux boot disk, all i can see is a "boot>" command starting. i dunno what can i do in this. but, for sure i can't do much of the thing, bcz it is counting down from 10 seconds. when the time up, it will automatically boot me into RH9.
help.........................

i would rpm -e grub to clean any excess grub files, then grab the redhat rpm from the cd or kernel.org... and reinstall grub.

read thru some man pages, and http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/

and then you should be able to easily install grub on the mbr and edit grub.conf to make everything work properly...

the process is fairly simple...

Well, my mistake - you'd have to mount your root filesystem and then do '/sbin/grub' because you're not booting normally. (I'm unfamiliar with RH boot disks - I'd assume you'd just hit enter or pass options at the boot prompt.) And this is going on the assumption all the stuff on your Linux partitions is still there like you said and that just the MBR got whacked. It sounds kind of like your system's gone but hopefully it was either unmounted or just the stuff wasn't on the path.

Maybe asc3ndant's right, though - grub's fubared and get a new one.

- Actually, if RH is just trying to throw you into RH again, try tomsrtbt. I just booted my Basic system with it as a test. When the prompt comes up, do 'root' and 'password' and then 'mount /dev/hda2 /mnt' (in my case) and there was my filesystem. So then I'd just do '/mnt/sbin/lilo' (hopefully 'grub' in your case) and LILO would be reinstalled. Like that, I guess.

thanks....
i think i will format all the hard disk if i fail to mend the trouble

i think at the boot prompt you could just use this (since i doubt your grub.conf file got messed up):

grub-install /dev/hda1

http://www.mcc.ac.uk/grub/grub_16.html