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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