FC-6 - about supergrub

[Josef Lowder]

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The main supergrub home page seems to be down (temporarily, I presume), 
but you can find info here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/supergrub/

Super Grub Disk is a bootable floppy or CDROM that is oriented towards system
rescue, specifically for repairing the booting process. Super Grub Disk is
simply a Grub Disk with a lot of useful menus. It can activate partitions,
boot partitions, boot MBRs, boot your former OS (Linux or another one) by
loading menu.lst from your hard disk, automatically restore Grub on your MBR,
swap hard disks in the BIOS, and boot from any available disk device. It has
multi-language support, and allows you to change the keyboard layout of your
shell.


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On Wed, 23 May 2007 10:45, Josef Lowder wrote
> I've been going through similar frustrations, Robert. 
> But I would recommend trying PCLinuxOS as it has worked 
> best for me in creating a proper grub dual boot and 
> restoring access to XP on my wife's computer.
> 
> Also, someone on the list here recommended a live CD 
> called "supergrub" that provides lots of options for 
> restoring damaged or missing grub.
> 
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> On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:23, Robert N. Eaton wrote
> > I got tired of my Xandros distro and decided to go to Kubuntu.
> > Evidently the distro of Kubuntu I got was broken. Downloaded Fedora 
> > Core 6 and during the install, I hosed my WinXP and couldn't get FC-
> > 6 to boot.
> > 
> > Reloaded WinXP on hda and reinstalled my files (fortunately from 
> > up-to-date backups.) Then I  re-downloaded Fedora Core 6, verified 
> > the iso's with SHA1SUM, and burned the 5 cd's, verifying the burned 
> > cd carefully with the iso file.
> > 
> > Then I installed FC-6 on my hdb.  The process took nearly 30 minutes,
> >  and the last thing the installer told me, prior to telling me to 
> > remove the media from the CD tray, was that it had installed a boot 
> > loader. 
> > (Didn't specify LILO or GRUB.)
> > 
> > When I rebooted, WinXP came up. No boot loader options. Hours of 
> > careful work, but no payoff.
> > 
> > How do I re-write GRUB?  Or LILO?
> > 
> > Bob Eaton
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