reinstalling windows on a dual boot
Kostas Sfakiotakis
kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr
Sat Jan 22 23:43:10 UTC 2005
Greetings tyche,
tyche wrote:
> was wondering if there was some way to reinstall wins**t on a dual boot one
> drive system without having to reinstall linux
???
Well am not sure if i understand your question , but i think you are
asking on
how to bypass the problem that appears when Windows overwrite the MBR with
grub ( lilo ) and put their own which of course loads only Windows .
In the above case you just boot from the first CD of your Linux
distribution and
select the rescue mode .
After that simply chroot /mnt/sysimage and then simply reinstall grub .
Usually entering
# grub-install /dev/hda
should do the work for you .
There was never a question of reinstalling linux , the only question was of
reinstalling the boot loader and only the boot loader .
Kind Regards,
Kostas
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