REinstalling Grub via dual boot

Joel Rittvo joelonlinux at optonline.net
Thu Feb 17 01:00:43 UTC 2005


Mike Chambers wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I dual boot XP with Fedora + rawhide, and am planning on reinstalling
> XP.  I could just wait until Fedora 4 test 1 comes out and just
> reinstall everything, but might go ahead and try windows now.
> 
> Upon saying all of that, if I do reinstall XP, what needs to be done to
> reinstall grub to the MBR like it is now?
> 

These are my notes for reinstalling grub, from a few months back. 
Hopefully they are still current!

1.  Boot from first Fedora CD or Rescue CD
2.  At boot prompt:  linux rescue
3.  Then:  grub-install /dev/hdxx
     (using the device you want grub to install to)

Joel Rittvo




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