hello there I have now successfully installed RHEL 6.1 stable on my laptop and this is how I did it.
When I had installed win xp I also installed partition magic software and formated the last drive with ext3
Next time I booted with a new copy of RHEL 6.1 burnt with nero and I just installed on the ext3 formatted drive without formatting it again
I then tried all ways of restoring the grub ..but could not succeed
Finaly I decided to install again but this time I made sure about formatting the drive ...and I was surprised to see ext4 ..so I went ahead and did the same installation procedure thereafter ...
The grub along with RHEL 6.1 and Win XP is now available and I can access both the OSs easily ...thanks again for all your help and ideas ...and some things I have learnt the hard way
1) always keep backup of Linux drive ...
2) when executing command like
dd ..use the value for
bs=446 I had used
bs=512 ...lost the data in LVM ..i was able to get back the data from NTFS partition using bootable testdisk but not my Linux - LVM drive
3)never trust windows and the inbuilt native - default burning software ...USE NERO OR NERO-LINUX OR SOMETHING THAT IS STANDARD AND WORTH
hope you all agree with me ......thanks again