Re: reinstalling windows on a dual boot

[Kostas Sfakiotakis <kostassf cha forthnet gr>]

Greetings tyche,

tyche wrote:
> was wondering if there was some way to reinstall wins**t on a dual boot one 
> drive system without having to reinstall linux

???

Well am not sure if i understand your question , but i think you are 
asking on
how to bypass the problem that appears when Windows overwrite the MBR with
grub ( lilo ) and put their own which of course loads only Windows .
In the above case you just boot from the first CD of your Linux 
distribution and
select the rescue mode .
After that simply chroot /mnt/sysimage and then simply reinstall grub .

Usually entering

# grub-install  /dev/hda

should do the work for you .


There was never a question of reinstalling linux , the only question was of
reinstalling the boot loader and only the boot loader .


Kind Regards,
   Kostas