I always have a grub floppy on hand for moments like this.
You can bring up windows and linux no matter what state the
mbr on the hard disk is. Follow the instructions here for
making the floppy boot disk with the ext2 filesystem
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall
# mke2fs /dev/fd0
# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt
# grub-install --root-directory=/mnt fd0
# umount /mnt
and boot off the floppy (you'll have to add the boot
parameters into the menu.lst file on the floppy, or do it by
hand at the boot prompt).
After that install grub with grub-install onto the first
harddisk in the bios (usually /dev/hda). If this doesn't
work, boot off the floppy until you figure out what to do
Joe
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