OFF-TOPIC: Fedora 7 already installed, can't install XP on empty partition

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

MKas wrote:
> I had WinXP & F9. Yesterday I tried to reinstall WinXP and it was
> successfull after partition hide with gparted.
> 
> But now I have problem with MBR. I hadn't any linux cd/dvd so
> downloaded F9 KDE Live (Full linux dvd download about 36 hours). I
> run F9 KDE Live and try to fix MBR. 1 - mount boot disk as /boot, 2
> - grub-install /dev/my_boot_disk .grub-install says what everything
> was successfull, but after restart never changes. Tried to run
> grub-install 2 times.
> 
> Where can be a problem? Or I need to start download F9-full?>
> Thanks.
> 
Do not mount the disk as /boot. Instead try something like this:

mkdir /mnt/tmp
mount <F9 root partition> /mnt/tmp
chroot /mnt/tmp

If /boot is on a separate partition, run "mount /boot".

Run grub-install.

Mikkel
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