Re: Another Dual boot question

From: Kostas Sfakiotakis (kostassf_at_cha.forthnet.gr)
Date: 11/28/05

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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:41:00 +0200

    Greetings Arne ,

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Arne Drechsler" <listrx@onlinehome.de>
    To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 11:12 AM
    Subject: Another Dual boot question

    > Hi everybody,
    >
    > I have windows on first partition, FC4 on 2.,3.,4. partition. All on a
    > 250GB disk. Grub is boot loader.
    > Can i reinstall windows without overwriting Grub ?

    No . The Windows XP Installation proccess will overwrite the Grub Bootstrap
    loader
    and only that .

    Or do i have to reinstall Grub after Windows installation ?
    Yes you do have to reinstall grub after the Windows Installation , but that
    shouldn't be
    a problem .
     IS there some docu about this already ?

    Probably . If you search the archives of this very list you might find the
    proccess described
    again . It goes something like this :

    1. After the Windows installation finishes gracefully . Boot with the First
    CD of your
       Linux Installation be it Fedora Core [1 ..4 ] or whatever .
    2. Type linux rescue . The rescue proccess will try to locate your Linux
    Installation and
        if everything goes well then it will find your linux installation .
    3. After your Linux installation is found you will be dropped to a shell
    and your linux installation
       will be mounted under /mnt/sysimage ( I think you are asked if you wish
    to do so and there
       you must answer yes .
    4. At the shell prompt you should enter
       #chroot /mnt/sysimage
    5. After that you will be chrooted to your linux installation . At which
    point you should type
       #grub-install /dev/hda1 . Then it should report that grub install
    finished without errors
    6. At the shell prompt again you should type
       #exit ( Exits the chrooted enviroment )
       #exit ( This will reboot your machine , be ware not to boot from the
    cd again )

    That should do it . If everything has gone well you should now have your
    grub boot menu
    with two options availabe . The first one should boot your linux
    installation whereas the
    second one usually labeled "DOS" would be your XP installation . Those
    labels can be
    changed to whatever your like . /boot/grub/grub.conf is where the boot menu
    relies ,
    you can change the title line to whatever you see fit but leave the rest as
    it is .

    Kind Regards,
      Kostas

    > Thanks in advance
    > Arne
    >
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