Win2k dual boot recovery help

[Bart Garst]

There sure is. Did you make a boot disk when you installed linux? If you did
then go ahead and do the MBR restore with the Windows disk. Next boot into
linux with your Linux boot disk and use LILO. I have a dual boot with
WinME(/dev/hda1) and RedHat 7.3(/dev/hda5) with LILO installed to the MBR.

I've not used grub but I know this way works.

Bart

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[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Alan
Dayley
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:05 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Win2k dual boot recovery help


One of my coworkers installed Red Hat 7.3 on another partition of a Windows
2000 system.  We installed GRUB in the master boot record (MBR) of the hard
drive and now only Linux will boot (Darn!).  Windows 2000 gives a file
missing error an will not boot when selected from the GRUB menu.

OK, I know if we boot with a Windows boot floppy and run "fdisk /mbr" this
will restore to MBR allowing Windows 2000 to boot but then Linux won't
boot.  Is there a way to do the "fdisk /mbr" and then get back to the Linux
boot too, without having to re-install Linux?

Alan "Not wanting to do it again"


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