Another Dual boot question

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Greetings Arne ,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arne Drechsler" <listrx at onlinehome.de>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 11:12 AM
Subject: Another Dual boot question


> Hi everybody,
>
> I have windows on first partition, FC4 on 2.,3.,4. partition. All on a
> 250GB disk. Grub is boot loader.
> Can i reinstall windows without overwriting Grub ?

No . The Windows XP Installation proccess will overwrite the Grub Bootstrap 
loader
and only that .

Or do i have to  reinstall Grub after Windows installation ?
Yes you do have to reinstall grub after the Windows Installation , but that 
shouldn't be
a problem .
 IS there some docu about  this already ?

Probably . If you search the archives of this very list you might find the 
proccess described
again . It goes something like this :

1. After the Windows installation finishes gracefully . Boot with the First 
CD of your
   Linux Installation be it Fedora Core [1 ..4 ] or whatever .
2. Type linux rescue . The rescue proccess will try to locate your Linux 
Installation and
    if everything goes well then it will find your linux installation .
3. After your Linux installation is found you will be dropped to a shell 
and your linux installation
   will be mounted under /mnt/sysimage (  I think you are asked if you wish 
to do so and there
   you must answer yes .
4. At the shell prompt you should enter
   #chroot /mnt/sysimage
5. After that you will be chrooted to your linux installation . At which 
point you should type
   #grub-install  /dev/hda1 . Then it should report that grub install 
finished without errors
6. At the shell prompt again you should type
   #exit   ( Exits the chrooted enviroment )
   #exit   ( This will reboot your machine , be ware not to boot from the 
cd again )

That should do it . If everything has gone well you should now have your 
grub boot menu
with two options availabe . The first one should boot your linux 
installation whereas the
second one usually labeled "DOS"  would be your XP installation . Those 
labels can be
changed to whatever your like . /boot/grub/grub.conf is where the boot menu 
relies ,
you can change the title line to whatever you see fit but leave the rest as 
it is .


Kind Regards,
  Kostas

> Thanks in advance
> Arne
>
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