On 25 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can use the fc2 install disk to do a repair. > > When you get a shell, use the --root-directory option to grub-install > to re-install the grub boot-loader.
Yep. Equivalently, you boot it up via any rescue disc or CD, mount the old root filesystem at, say, /mnt, and then: chroot /mnt /bin/sh After that, you should be able to run all your old Linux stuff, including whatever commands you used to set up the boot loader in the first place. If you were running lilo, it would tell you if you'd made errors in its config file when you tried to set it up. If Linux is crashing when you boot it up, it might be a good idea to look at the errors in the /var/log/messages file while you're booted up from the rescue CD, too. I assume there's no chance you let XP do anything to the partition where Linux is installed? It might be a good idea to run a fsck -n on the Linux partitions too, while you're running in safe mode. If there are no errors to fix, or only a few, then all *should* be well. If there are scary numbers of errors, it may mean something has been scribbling on the Linux partition, and more drastic repair measures will be called for. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
