If your intent is to leave your windows partition alone and just do a fresh install of fedora, I'm pretty sure that you can just run the normal setup thru anaconda, and it will detect your ntfs partition and take that into account when setting up your grub configuration. Aaron -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Haney Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 1:31 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: grub Sherrett O. Walker wrote: > I'm supporting a user who needs help with grub. He had FC5 dual booting > with XP installed on a Dell Insipiron 6400. While using Windows, he > removed the Linux partitions so he could "start fresh". When he shut > down, his computer, he was brought to a grub prompt. He and I have no > idea how to configure it so we can boot to Windows so he can re-install > FC. Does anyone have any guidance? > > Thanks. > SOW > > I guess the best way is to boot to Rescue Mode from the XP setup CD (you do have that right?) and run fdisk /mbr that might fix it if grub was installed to the MBR of the disk. -- Ceterum censeo, Carthago delenda est. Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this electronic message is intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above and may contain privileged or confidential information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that dissemination, distribution or copying of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone and destroy the copies you received. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
