windows XP deleted bootloader,need to reinstall it

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Aug 7 03:59:17 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 00:44 +0530, devesh gade wrote:
> Inserted installation cd in rescue mode and then following commands at
> the prompt:
> 1 grub
> 2 root (hd0,0)
> 3 setup (hd0)
> 4 exit
> 5 reboot
> 
> However even after rebooting the grub screen does not show up at
> startup and Windows XP boots by default.

Obvious questions:

Is hd0,0 the right drive and partition to work on?
Do you have more than one drive?

Running "fdisk -l" can list all the available drives and partitions, you
could post the output, here.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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