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Greetings All,
I have an old Dell XPS R350 PC that used to dual boot Win98 and FC3. After updating virus definitions on the Win side, it will no longer boot Windows. I generally like linux better so it is not great loss. However, there are a few things I'd like to be able to on the Win side and an consequently considering throwing XP on the Windows partition. The problem is that I can't find a clear route to restoring the GRUB setup.
When I install Win XP, I fully expect it will overwrite the existing MBR, thus preventing me from booting my Linux side.
How do I restore the MBR so that GRUB will do its job after the Win install is done?
'Searched the tutorials and did a few searches on MBR and GRUB and such to no avail. If I've missed an obvious answer to this, sorry in advance.
You can leave grub on the floppy and setup the config file to dual-boot, or you can install grub onto the mbr after windows is installed
Thanks for the response. The latter option is the one I want, 'install grub onto the mbr after windows is installed'. I am not a heavy duty sys-admin and don't play with this level of stuff much/often, so I'm scrounging for a procedure that will put my existing grub config back in place after the windows install.
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