Another Dual boot question

[Arne Drechsler]

Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:

>
> 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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>
Thanks a lot guys !!!

Arne.