hi guyz

im using dual opertation sys winxp and FC3 recently i formated my drive containing winxp and reinstalled it now my FC bootloader has been overwriteen by the winxp. can any one plz tell me how to reinsatll the FC3 bootloader with out loosing my data in it.

regards

Boot off of your install/rescue disk, chroot into your Linux system (if you select the rescue option from the install disk, your system will be mounted on /mnt/sysimage, so you would do chroot /mnt/sysimage), and run grub-install /dev/hda (this assumes that /dev/hda is your boot hard drive, change it if not). This will reinstall GRUB onto the MBR.

hi btmiller

thanx for the quick response but can u plz be more clear as im new to linux.

thanx once again.

OK, I thought I was pretty clear, but maybe not ... let's try again:

1) Boot off of your Fedora core 3 install disk
2) At the first prompt, type "linux rescue" (no quotes)
3) The CD will look for already installed systems. It should find your system and say that it's been mounted on /mnt/sysimage.
4) Type "chroot /mnt/sysimage" (again, no quotes)
5) You are now in your Linux system, to re-install grub on the MBR type "grub-install /dev/hda" (no quotes again) -- /dev/hda is the first IDE hard drive, i.e. C: in the Windows world. If you're using a SATA drive, it would be /dev/sda (SATA drives get interpreted as SCSI, for some reason).
6) Reboot by typing "reboot" and remove the FC3 install disk. GRUB should now be restored.

hi btmiller
thank u for ur detailed explanation this solved my problem.
thank u once again.