On Sunday, Oct 26th 2003 at 18:37 -0500, quoth Phil Savoie: =>On Sunday 26 October 2003 15:25, Bilal Dar wrote: > I have a machine in =>which i have two OS's, linux and xp. I need to > reinstall xp caz its =>microsft. > > If i will reinstall windows i will lose my mbr and wont be =>getting the dual > boot option anymore. I want to know how can i get =>grub back. I did it once > before but i cant recall how i did it. Kindly =>let me know how to do it. =>Assuming that you only have one harddrive installed, please do the =>following: => =>Boot into the system with the RedHat cd 1 of 3 and at the boot promtp type: => =>linux rescue => =>Follow and answer the prompts (skip CD check if asked). Eventually you will =>be asked if it is ok to look for any RH distros on the drive. Answer yes. =>At the command prompt type: =>chroot /mnt/sysimage =>Once this is done, then type: =>grub-install /dev/hda (Again, assuming you only have one hard drive =>installed) I'm also confused in a related way: I just added a disk to my system. I used to have an sda and sdb. I just added an sdc. Here's my df output: 530 > df Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 22G 1.9G 19G 10% / /dev/sda1 99M 17M 78M 18% /boot /dev/hda1 3.7G 2.3G 1.3G 66% /f /dev/hda2 70G 58G 8.2G 88% /g /dev/sdc1 8.4G 3.1G 5.0G 38% /home /dev/sdb1 8.4G 2.5G 5.5G 32% /home2 /dev/sdc2 26G 33M 24G 1% /h none 504M 0 504M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda6 9.9G 7.7G 1.8G 82% /usr /dev/sda5 1011M 669M 291M 70% /var Do I need to do anything regarding grub now that sdc has been added? Does grub need to be reinstalled? -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
