reinstalled windows, how do i reconfigure grub?

David Teague davidbteague at verizon.net
Tue Aug 30 20:10:22 UTC 2005


On Tuesday, August 30, 2005 12:59 PM
Lewis Futrell wrote
RE: reinstalled windows, how do i reconfigure grub?

>>On Saturday, August 27, 2005 8:38 PM

>>Drew asked about "reinstalled windows, how do i reconfigure grub?"
>>
>><<hi guys... i reinstalled windows on one of the partitions of my drive,
>>and now i want to reconfigure grub so that i can still use both
>>operating systems. however, my machine only boots into windows now, so
>>i'm kinda freaked out. how can i solve this?>>
>>
>><Many useful comments in several posts>
>>

David Teague requested:

>>Please post a summary of what you find about how to to
>>get a Windows reinstallation to allow Linux to be booted.
>>
>>I will be faced with doing this from time to time. My solution
>>is to create a couple Linux boot disks every time I change my
>>system. I keep one carefully dated in my box with my will,
>>car titles and other important documents, and the other on my desk.

Lewis said:

> I just reinstalled Windows which of course trashed GRUB.  What I did to 
> fix
> the issue was to use the Ubuntu install CD, booted with the expert option,
> went through all the steps up until I hit the partitioning.  When I got
> there, I told Ubuntu to NOT format the drives and gave them the proper 
> mount
> points.  After I was finished with partitioning, I skipped down to the 
> part
> where you install Grub.  Grub found the XP partition and installed itself
> back to the home that it was so rudely ejected from by XP.

Ah haaa! that sounds like something I could actually do and
have a hope of not screwing up. Thanks!

David Teague,  http://cs.wcu.edu/~dbt






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