> -----Original Message----- > From: Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 January 2006 06:24 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup > > > If grub gets hosed, you can boot a Win 98 CD or a boot floppy and run > fdisk /mbr on it. I recently took a hard drive of mine out > of a friends > computer that was dual booting and that was what I did. Now > windoze XP > boots up like Linux was never there. I'm not sure if you can do that > from the win XP CD or not though. I'm not a windoze person. I don't > have and never had windoze, ever.
The command fixmbr ran with the WinXP installation CD will reinstall the M$Windoze boot code in the MBR. Similarly the command fixboot will rewrite the partition boot sector if by mistake Grub was installed in the WinXP partition boot sector instead of the MBR. A lot of people unnecessarily reinstall M$Windoze when either of these two little tips could save the day. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
