Re: Lost fc7 boot loader:

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan gmail com>]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:59 -0400, Vincent Onelli wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there any way to restore the boot loader? I made dome error,
> reinstalled the windows XP without first back up all the data in
> fedora.
> I have an HP Pavilion zv6000 with AMD athlon 64, 80 GB and 1GB of
> memory dual boot with windows and Fedora 7 (fc8 will not install in
> this computer, I also posted this problem but I did not get any
> answer) the HD is partition at 40GB each. I try to restore using fc7
> original disk used for installation but it does not restore the boot
> loader.

Do you have a Rescue disk? If so, use it to boot, do
"chroot /mnt/sysimage" and then "/sbin/grub-install". If your
old /boot/grub.conf file is OK, grub should install the bootloader. You
might want to check that grub.conf has an entry for Windows so your dual
boot will still work.

poc