* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual boot: XP installed last?
@ 2006-11-01 19:28 99% ` Mick
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From: Mick @ 2006-11-01 19:28 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Tuesday 31 October 2006 18:05, Régis Décamps wrote:
> On 10/30/06, james <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > Allan Spagnol Comar <allan.comar <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > you just have to rerun grub setup.
> >
> > Hmmmm,
> >
> > If I install XP in the partition and it writes over the MBR,
> > then, upon reboot, how do I get to grub.conf so I have the
> > option to reboot the gentoo, then run grub setup?
>
> On windows run:
> fdisk /mbr
> (or somethink similar I can't recall exactly)
The fdisk /mbr is a MSDOS command. I think you mean the more modern command
fixmbr and if you run this from a Recovery Console (using your WinXP
installation CD) your computer will self-destruct in 3 seconds (only
kidding! :) ) What either of these two commands do is write into the MBR the
M$Windoze bootloader code. Your Gentoo installation will thereafter be
inaccessible without a LiveCD. You can chainload grub from the WinXP
ntldr.exe or you can reinstall grub in the MBR. I would recommend the
latter, unless you do not intend to keep the linux OS or its /boot partition
on this machine.
> That restores your previous bootloaker, ie grub.
Err, no it won't. To restore grub boot using a LiveCD, or a Grub floppy and
install grub as per the Gentoo handbook.
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Regards,
Mick
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