recovering grub after installing XP

[Justin Zygmont]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, David Tilbrook wrote:

> The lowest partition on my laptop currently contains Windows2000
> which I want to replace by XP.
> 
> I am using RH9.2 in the other partitions.
                ^^
		really?  where can i download that? :)


> I believe that when I install XP it will change the boot partition
> so that grub will no longer be in place, thus making it difficult
> for me to boot RH.
> 
> What measures do I take before installing XP so that I can recover
> and reset the boot partition to bring up grub?

it might change your XP partition to active, so you might have to use 
fdisk to set it back to your linux one.  If you have reinstall grub, 
then there is a way, but you have to boot with a rescue CD, and type 
the 3 grub commands, unless grub-install really works, it's use is 
depreciated and it never worked properly for me.  Just make sure you have 
a bootable disk handy.


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