Re: Dual boot with a twist

From: Conny (NOSPAMuncurbed_at_swipnet.se)
Date: 01/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:17:50 GMT

"Donald" <NoOne@NoWhere.net> skrev i meddelandet
news:MPG.1a736deb4827f79f989680@netnews.insightbb.com...
> I have been running Windows 98 and Redhat 9.0 in a dual boot system
> for a while now. I have two hard drives:
> 60GB master that contains windows 98
> 160GB slave drive that contains Linux Redhat 9.0.
> Partitioned such that the first 40GB is partitioned and formatted
> for Linux. (linux swap, ext3, etc.)
> The rest is FAT32 so that it can be shared between Linux and
> Windows 98.
> I was using GRUB to boot.
>
> I recently got Windows XP. Since my 60GB hard drive was going bad
> I bought a new 160GB hard drive and installed Windows XP on it.
>
> Now I cannot boot to Linux. The floppy I created at install of Redhat
> does not work. Most information on the web assumes that I have windows
> installed and I am installing Linux on top of it. The problem is
> that I have an existing Linux install with applications and date that
> I want to access.
>
> Can anyone suggest a way that I can boot the existing Linux partion
> without re-installing Linux?
>
> Regards,
> Donald

Get TomsRTBT, a linux floppy distro. Saved me a couple of times.
Get the DOS archive if you dont' have a running Linux.
Put it on a floppy and boot.
then
chroot /dev/hda?
( ? = depends on where you had the root before the crash)( hda1, hda2, hda3
so on )

then run grub again, I use LILO so I can't specify the grub commands right
now.

Good luck.

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