Re: SV: Bootloader lost after lightning struck my computer and forced me to reinstall Windows XP

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yes, you can.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-grub-installing.html

i didn't look for specifics on how to do it, but i would think it's just downloading the package and installing like you would anything else.

Marie-Thérèse Lorentzen wrote:

Can I reinstall grub without completely reinstalling Linux?
Marie-Thérèse

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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.
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