recovering grub after installing XP

[Jeremy Baker]

The last time I updated my windows partition, I just booted with my 
linux boot diskette, and issued the grub-install command to reinstall 
the boot loader.  Nothing else was required.

Jeremy

Justin Zygmont wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, David Tilbrook wrote:
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>>The lowest partition on my laptop currently contains Windows2000
>>which I want to replace by XP.
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>>I am using RH9.2 in the other partitions.
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>                ^^
>		really?  where can i download that? :)
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>>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.
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>>What measures do I take before installing XP so that I can recover
>>and reset the boot partition to bring up grub?
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>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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