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I have an dual boot system ,Xp and Fedora core 6.Both were workin fine.i recently reinstalled my windows Xp and after it ,the Xp overwrote my Grub boot loader with its loader,so now i could not get into to linux..How to get my Grub back??????????
I have an dual boot system ,Xp and Fedora core 6.Both were workin fine.i recently reinstalled my windows Xp and after it ,the Xp overwrote my Grub boot loader with its loader,so now i could not get into to linux..How to get my Grub back??????????
Yep, sorry to say , but whatever os you install last will install it's boot loader. You may be able to reinstall grub without reinsatalling fed6 by using the install cd, not sure tho, alternatively, you could just boot to linux and reinstall grub as a package maybe...
If you cant see your linux distro in the windows splash then you may be able to edit it using the msconfig in windows, there is a tab for boot.ini there I beleive. No sorry , you cant modify it there.. I would use the linux install cd, if ya have one. Let us know how ya fixed it please, I would hope a reinstall is unnecessary.
you can just boot a live-cd (like knoppix, kanotix, ubuntu or whatever) and then set a chroot to your linux root directory. Just do:
chroot /your/linux/root/directory
then reinstall grub. man chroot tells you more.
btw. if you use one or more windows installations it's probably better to use the windows bootloader, since the probability of reinstalling/repairing windows is higher. To do that install grub in the startsector of your root partition, then copy it out into a file with
dd if=... of=... bs=512 count=1
Copy the file to c: (where windows has its start files) and make an entry into boot.ini and off you go.
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