dual boot

[jarves 0]

i have a dual boot linux mandrake10 and windows xp and i have installed the bootloader at the mbr, how can i remove linux and the bootloader without damaging windows???

can i do it in the windows environment???

[danleff 0]

A good howto is located here.

[iamroot 0]

I currently have fedora core 2 and win xp on a single hard disk in my pc. I intend to remove the win xp installtion and reinstall. How do i restore the grub bootloader after that cos i know that the windows bootloader will overide the grub bootloader.

[danleff 0]

I hope you have a good reason to re-install Windows!

 

Anyway, I borrowed the following from another forum;

 

You have to boot from the first cd of fedora, in rescue mode.

If you are in the prompt, do the following:

 

# chroot /mnt/sysimage

# grub-install <device> (where device is /dev/hda, if that is where you MBR is at)

 

Of course, if you have a boot floppy, go to a root console and just type in;

 

# grub-install <device>

 

[iamroot 0]

Thanks for the advice.