Re: Help: Linux disappears after WinXP installs

For recent Fedora distributions, you boot the rescue CD ROM. It should
find your Linux distribution and mount it. Then you cd to the
directory where it is mounted, chroot to that mount point, and then
do grub-install with an argument of /dev/hda or whatever your root
disk is. That will reinstall grub as the boot loader and it will
then find your original grub.conf file that lets you boot from either
Linux or Windows.

I don't know the ritual for other Linux distributions, nor for those
using LILO instead of grub, but it should be something similar. I
guess for some distributions rescue mode is an option on the install CD.
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jhhaynes at earthlink dot net

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