to boot with linux in dual os system

himy · 09-20-2007, 01:04 PM

i have fedora 7 installed on my laptop. yesterday i reinstalled windows xp as second operating system. but its bootloader overwrote the grub of linux and now i am unable to boot with linux.
please explain the way to reinstall the linux bootloader. can this be done by some commands without using fedora cd.

motomon · 09-20-2007, 02:10 PM

I do think you will need the Fedora disk to do this, there is a link you may want to try http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...ws_AFTER_Linux If you happen to have any issues, do not hesitate and contact the LQ community. Good luck and hope this helps!

motomon · 09-20-2007, 02:11 PM

There is also another example for Ubuntu that you may follow https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...tallingWindows. Good luck!

saravanan_jack · 09-20-2007, 02:26 PM

Hi Buddy,

put the FC CD in the CD Drive. Set CDROM as a first boot device then you will get linux boot propmt. in the prompt type

step 1

# liunx rescue

system will boot in to linux single user mode. then you will get # prompt.

Step 2

before that ncursers window it will ask you to mount the existing linux partation. if you chosen "YES" you don't want to execute the Step 2 command.

#mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

Step 3

chroot /mnt

finaly type

#grub-install /dev/sda

i think this will resolve your problem

Thanks
saravanan