Hello every1!! OK...I reinstalled WinXP on my first partition of my first HD...anmd it seems that GRUB was installed there, and now I cant choose which OS to boot!! :( How do I reinstall GRUB without reinstalling Linux?? Thanx!! ;) El-Trucha http://www.masterleito.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.homeftp.net hotline://tsfc.ath.cx

Boot Linux from floppy boot disk (you do have one don't you?) or rescue CD, then: /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda (for example) Guy

I've used Gentoo linux, so thats is how I'll approach it.. Slap the Live CD in the tray and boot from it. Theres a bunch of steps in the hand book (which is onlien that you have to follow to properly mount your boot partition and such. The steps the hand book said were liek this: # mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot *or whatever your partitioning scheme is. At this point you should be able to cd into boot and make sure theres a /grub directory, and files. If so, then lets keep going. If not, I forgot something. Theres somethign in here you have to do to make sure the system knows where grub is, you could probably just mount the cdrom, export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom, and then run this, but I'm not 100% sure about that... But assuming you can, Re-emerge Grub (wont take too long) # emerge grub your grub.conf file should be fine... # grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda *be sure to change like /boot and /dev/hda. If you install to /dev/hda, it will write to the MBR and let you boot, which is what you want me thinks. # grub grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit Unmount all your mounts and restart. (I know that the grub steps here work, but its the getting to this point which is tough) What we needed to do: When you reinstalled XP, it put its own boot loader onto the MBR of C:\. We need to put grub back. Thats where the install to /dev/hda comes in. Hope this helps.

Umm...I cant access the boot folder in /mnt/hdb3!! :( It just appears as if there were no files in there...and when I try to enter there from a shell...and try the "grub-install /mnt/hdb3" command, it says its a read only filesystem!! I tried un-readonly-ing-it but it doesnt work!! :@ I cant delete files from anywhere in hdb3!! :( What do I do now?? hdb3 is a Linux partition, not NTFS... And why is the boot folder empty?? Thanx!! ;) El-Trucha http://www.masterleito.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.homeftp.net hotline://tsfc.ath.cx

El-Trucha why are you giving this command? "grub-install /mnt/hdb3" I thought you wanted to restore the GRUB boot loader. The GRUB boot loader is usually installed on the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the first hard drive. In most cases this is /dev/hda. I have done this many times. Here is how I would put the GRUB boot loader on the first drive: 1. boot with the first RedHat 9 CD 2. at the comamnd line type: linux rescue 3. take the default for several more questions until you get the command line again 4. type the following command: chroot /mnt/sysimage 5. restore the boot loader by typing: grub-install /dev/hda If you want to test your GRUB boot first without writing it to your hard drive you can write it to a floppy instead with the command: grub-install /dev/fd0 After you know it works OK then you can write it to the hard drive. If need to change the GRUB menu you must edit the GRUB configuration file. This file is called "/boot/grub/grub.conf"

Hmm...I did all the steps, but I ended up on a console that said "grub>"!! What do I type in now?? I typed in "reboot", then it took me back to the regular console, and I typed in "reboot" again and it just rebooted, but to WinXP, not GRUB!! :( What now?? Thanx!! ;) El-Trucha http://www.masterleito.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.homeftp.net hotline://tsfc.ath.cx

Please get close to a clean Linux boot as you can. Then give us the output of: fdisk -l /dev/hda fdisk -l /dev/hdb cat /etc/fstab cat /etc/mtab df -Guy