Thanks to all those that offered help. I'd like to offer my experience with this should anyone else have to deal with it. Assuming you have a good install of RH, and you then install a Windoze OS AFTER the RH install. In my case it was a Toshiba laptop that was only supported by XP if XP was installed clean.
In short: 1: Boot from a bootdisk or CD and type: linux rescue to get into rescue mode. 2: Have RH search for your linux install and mount it at /mnt/syslinux 3: When you get into the shell, chroot /mnt/syslinux this gets you to your linux install on the HDD 4: type the following command (assuming a single hard drive with both OS's installed) 'grub-install /dev/hda'. This runs the install script that installs grub in the MBR again and searches for boot partitions, etc. In this case, it already had a grub.conf file to work from. Reboot and grub should come up the OS list. I hope this helps sort that out. I'd be happy to answer any questions regarding this. And thank God I can boot to RH again. On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 08:13, Mark Haney wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I know I'm doing this backwards, but are their any caveats or things > I should know before I attempt this. I have a laptop currently > running Win2k and RH9. Due to pressures inside the organization, I'm > being forced to begin testing and fixing application issues with XP > and need to install it on my laptop. The only real problem is that > in order for this to work, I'll need to blow away completely my Win2k > partition and do a fresh install of XP. The manufacturer says that > this is currently the only supported way to install XP. How is GRUB > going to handle that? And what should I do if I install XP and Grub > disappears? I'm comfortable with LILO, but haven't used GRUB enough > to be able to fix it if I break it. What should I know before hand? > > - ---------------------------------------------- > Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain - Isaac > Asimov > > Mark Haney > Polk County Schools IT Staff > http://www.polk.k12.nc.us > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> > > iQA/AwUBPxKdeeE7VA/jZY4+EQL5jgCeN2zGq6DZtTyk4sjMNfHSDECY6pYAn1rQ > ZBJEqgZSlZ26YNiC+SUjYpoi > =ABWb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
