grub

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Fri Sep 1 17:30:40 UTC 2006


Sherrett O. Walker wrote:
> I'm supporting a user who needs help with grub.  He had FC5 dual booting
> with XP installed on a Dell Insipiron 6400.  While using Windows, he
> removed the Linux partitions so he could "start fresh".  When he shut
> down, his computer, he was brought to a grub prompt.  He and I have no
> idea how to configure it so we can boot to Windows so he can re-install
> FC.  Does anyone have any guidance?
>
> Thanks.
> SOW
>
>   
I guess the best way is to boot to Rescue Mode from the XP setup CD (you 
do have that right?) and run fdisk /mbr that might fix it if grub was 
installed to the MBR of the disk.

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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415




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