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Old 05-19-2005, 08:20 PM   #1
rrc124
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Accidentally overwrote MBR - Grub


I have a dual boot setup. I had XP installed, then installed Fedora and set it during the install so that Grub let me choose which to boot. I had some XP trouble, however, and part of the solution in the guide was to run "fixboot" from the Windows Recovery Console. I am an idiot and didn't think about it overwriting Grub (that's what I assume happened). How can I put Grub back where it used to be doing what it used to do? Thanks!
 
Old 05-19-2005, 08:30 PM   #2
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boot into fedora with your install disk, and as root in a terminal, rerun grubconfig

*edit...

btw, you're not an idiot...prolly all of us have overwritten our boot programs at some point...i know i have.

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Old 05-20-2005, 12:24 AM   #3
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detpenguin is definately right, I know I have actually cleared my MBR with a Slackware install disc. But the good news is is it's fixable.

All you have to do in your case is reinstall Grub to the MBR from the Fedora disc.

If things get messed up, and you happen to have a Windows bootdisk, you can always run fdisk and type "fdisk /mbr" and it will rebuild the MBR using a standard code. You will be able to again boot into Windows, and you could go again at trying to install grub.

Just a good tidbit to know I think, it's what got me back running.
 
  


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