On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 10:34 -0400, Chad Martin wrote:
> GIRISH SHASTRI wrote:
> > i have setup my PCQLinux 2006 and WinXP. But for certain reasons i have
> > to format my C: and hence i lost my MBR.
>
> Formatting a drive doesn't touch the MBR. I was doing exactly that on a
> running server last night. Before you start messing with this, make
> sure you can not, in fact, boot into your Linux partition.
>
In my experience, if grub expects Windows to be there, and Windows
isn't, grub will panic and not even offer the menu screen...
> > now please help how can i setup my MBR again without reinstalling LINUX
>
> Boot into your Linux installation using a boot disk or CD, then run either
>
> grub-install
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> or
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> lilo
>
> depending on the bootloader you use. You'll probably have to mount your
> hard drive after you boot to the disk (assuming you didn't make a boot
> disk during installation, which is always a good idea). Then you'll
> have to chroot into your mounted hard drive before running the above
> commands.
>
> Chad Martin
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