Hi...I dunno if my experience will be of any help here...
When I installed 7.1 I managed to blow away the DOS partition on my hard
drive (yay me), thus losing Windows (this hadn't happened with 7.0)...I used
fdisk to refomat only the DOS partition, and didn't touch the Linux or the
swap partition, and then reinstalled Windows.
Now Grub works great, and I can access both Linux and Windows without
problem.
Kathleen
registered Linux user number 182139
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Ron....asuming that you let it install the default grub
> bootloader the below is cut and pasted from the command:
>
> info grub
>
> and was found in the FAQ's section.
>
> Alan
>
> How to create a GRUB boot floppy with the menu interface?
> The easiest way is:
>
> 1. Create filesystem in your floppy disk. For example:
>
> $ mke2fs /dev/fd0
>
> 2. Mount it on somewhere, say, `/mnt'.
>
> 3. Copy the GRUB images to `/mnt/boot/grub'. Only
> `stage1',
> `stage2' and `menu.lst' are necessary. You may not
> copy
> "stage1.5"s.
>
> 4. Run the following command:
>
> $ /sbin/grub --batch <<EOT
> root (fd0)
> setup (fd0)
> quit
>
> EOT
> "Luther, Ron" wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm very new to this stuff.
> >
> > I finally have a Mandrake 7.1 distribution up and running at home.
> >
> > I'd like to create a "rescue" or "bootdisk" diskette. {I'm planning to
> > re-install the Win98 portion of my "dual boot" machine - but I'm worried
> > about the possibility of not being able to get back into Mandrake.}
> >
> > Is there an 'easy' way to do this?
> >
> > Ron Luther
> > Telxon Corporation
