On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 00:44 +0530, devesh gade wrote: > hi friends!! > I had windows xp and fedora 9 in dual boot mode.Recently,I formatted > my windows XP. during this process,XP had deleted the boot loader of > fedora. I have tried to reinstall the boot loader by the installation > cd in the rescue mode but it does not work. > I also did a bit of googling and followed steps: Before you did those steps did you chroot to the / point of the Linux system installed on the disk. At that point something like: grub-install /dev/sda should work. > > 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. > Now,how do i get linux started?? > Or to say the least, how do i install the boot loader?? > > -- > Tough times dont last,Tough People Do. > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- ======================================================================= What this country needs is a good five cent ANYTHING! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines