fixing/reinstalling grub
Mark Weaver
mdw1982 at mdw1982.com
Mon Feb 14 12:49:47 UTC 2005
Paul Howarth wrote:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
>
>> Since Windows will be the second OS on the system and installing it
>> will wipe out the MBR and bootloader, (grub) how do I restore the
>> bootloader once the windows installation is complete?
>
>
> Boot from the rescue CD, get to the shell prompt, run "chroot
> /mnt/sysimage" and then "grub-install /dev/hda"
>
> That should do it.
>
> Paul.
>
God Bless you Paul. I was hoping it would be something simple such as
this. I'm still learning a lot about how Fedora does things and this
happened to be one of them.
--
Mark
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