Windows XP and fedora Core 4

[George English]

If you install windows after installing linux, windows will overwrite the
MBR. Re-installing grub using the Fedora rescue mode should work. Hopefully
this article http://www.ece.concordia.ca/~yu_luo/fc3_grub.html will help
you.

George

On 2/5/06, Marcel Janssen <korgull at home.nl> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 05 February 2006 13:32, Jeremy Thompson wrote:
> >   The reason, if I remeber correctly, is that windows re-writes the MBR
> > (master boot record) so that only windows partitions are recognized.
> > Therefore you need to install windows first, then Linux.  There might be
> > some programs out there that let you do it the other way around, but I
> > don't know them.  Sorry for the bad news!
>
> I think you can just install windows and after that use the Fedora rescue
> mode
> to restore the Grub installation and add Windows to the grub menu.
> A similar approach will be needed when you need to reinstall windows,
> which is
> a far as I know sometimes needed :-)
>
> regards,
> Marcel
>
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