On Monday 16 August 2004 16:55, Guy Rouillier wrote: > Ack, trying again, this message was returned to me because the > subject "Get grub mbr back after Windows XP Install" was interpreted > as a sympa request. > > I installed the new XP64 beta on my eMachines AMD64 laptop. It > reclaimed the MBR from grub. How can I get the grub MBR back on > without doing a complete reinstall? Can I start up the install CD, > drop to a command prompt, and run grub-install? The Mandrake version > that has the grub I need is 32-bit Mandrake 9.2. Thanks. > > BTW, this laptop has no floppy drive, so I can't boot from that. I > have another computer, so I could burn a bootable CD. I think XP > takes a backup of the boot sector; perhaps I could just use dd from a > command line from the 9.2 install CD? Insert CD1 and when asked select upgrade NOT install this may install lilio instead of grub I dont recall if you have a choice but you should. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org
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