Rescue from a floppy?

Mark Farmer farmerma at cromwell.co.uk
Wed Jul 21 13:28:46 UTC 2004


Lemke, Wesley wrote:
> I currently have FC2 installed.  I am about to install Win XP on a
> second drive.  I have GRUB installed to the MBR.  I am assuming that XP
> will overwrite GRUB.  I have an FC2 rescue CD, but for some strange
> reason, my computer will no longer boot from the CD.  Is there a way
> that I can get GRUB back into the MBR after I install XP?  Some sort of
> rescue floppy?  
> 
> I know the FC2 kernel is too big to fit on a floppy, but is there
> another option?
> 
> Thank in advance,
> Wes
> 
> 

I had troubles with booting from a cd that worked previously, I've got around it 
before by makeing a new cd, do you still have the .iso image? If not try copying the 
existing cd.

Mark Farmer RHCT
Linux Server Administrator





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