Can I reinstall grub without completely reinstalling Linux? Marie-Thérèse -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]På; vegne af shane c branch Sendt: 5. september 2003 00:40 Til: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Emne: Re: Bootloader lost after lightning struck my computer and forced me to reinstall Windows XP Marie-Thérèse Lorentzen wrote: > Lightning struck down and entered my computer via my modem and affected, > among other things, my Windows XP Boot (that was the system I was on, when > lightning struck). I could not reboot Windows XP but was actually able to > boot into Liux (RH 8). I ended up having reinstall Windows XP in order to > see if the problems I was seeing under Linux were also present under > Windows. I had understood that I could do a rescue boot from my CD ROM and > therefore thought it was not necessary to make a special boot disk. Now I > see that I misunderstood something. > > I was originally using Grub for my dual boot. (I have to separate physical > disks - one for each OS). However, the bootloader got written over when I > installed Windows XP. I was not able to get back into Linux. > I tried using Rescue on the CD ROM but I get the following messages: > > uncompressing Linux > crc error > -- system halted > > and the system freezes. > > I tried a friends Partion Magic 8.0 which has Boot Magic. Partition Magic > was able to recognize all my Linux partitions and Linux also showed up in > BootMagic's boot list, but I was not able to boot up. The screen remains > blank, when I tried via Boot Magic. > > I have since gotten a hold of Linux 9 and have decided to do the following: > > - uninstall Boot Magic (as I'm afraid it will interfere with the dual boot > loader, that comes with Linux) > - either do an upgrade to Linux 9, if possible (I'm afraid it won't be if I > can't even get into Linux 8) otherwise do a fresh installation of Linux 9. > > The only thing with the latter is that I imagine I will lose all my data in > the Linux drive. > > Any suggestions? (Other than get a ligtningrod for the building!) > > Marie-Thérèse > > maybe i'm oversimplifying, but could you not just reinstall grub? as you saw, the MS os will overwrite whatever is in the boot sector, so when configuring dual boot, you would usually install the ms offering first, then do linux. just a thought. -- regards, shane -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
