Reinstalling grub?

[Knute Johnson]

>On Tuesday 10 October 2006 20:41, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> I have WinXP installed on the first hard drive and FC5 on the second.
>>  I was using grub as the boot loader but it was destroyed when I had
>> to reload Winblows.  I'm sure that I can start FC from a CD and mount
>> the second drive but how do I reload grub?  Any pointers would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>> --
>> Knute Johnson
>> Molon Labe...
>
>Put the 1st FC5 disc in. Choose Linux-rescue. You will be presented with 
>harddrive options. Choose the one that has FC5 on it, and you will end up 
>with a command prompt. Type. chroot /mnt/sysimage.  Now you can reinstall 
>Grub on the Winblows drive. If Winblows is using hda, type. 
>grub-install /dev/hda .  If all goes well, Grub should now be installed in 
>the MBR of the Winblows drive. Reboot, and you should have Grubs menu back.
>
>Nigel.

I'm with you Nigel but how does grub know that the Linux drive is 
hdb?

Thanks,

-- 
Knute Johnson
Molon Labe...