Grub gone after reinstall XP

[1nt3rfe4r]

Hello all,

I am running a Fedora7/XP dual boot on my laptop with the grub bootloader, and for a while all was fine. Unfortunately every now and then my XP will get messed up so i tried reinstalling it over the old XP partition but now my beatiful grub bootloader doesnt come up anymore at boot. My fedora partitions are still there but i cant get the OS to boot....

Is there a way to restore grub? Thanks alot!

[leigh123linux]

Try this link

http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.ph...s_installation

[Dangermouse]

Hello if you boot with your rescue disk or instalation(rescue) disk, and assuming that /dev/hda is the location of /boot partition

su -c /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda'

[1nt3rfe4r]

Thanks for the quick reply guys! That sure did the trick in fixing grub and booting up Fedora.

Unfortunately it seems i now broke my XP partition (but hey, i couldnt care less about that!). I guess i installed the grub thing on the wrong partition or whatever, i get some strange 'filesystem unknown' error..... but ill cross that bridge when i come to it!

Thanks!

[Linkmax]

Originally Posted by Dangermouse

Hello if you boot with your rescue disk or instalation(rescue) disk, and assuming that /dev/hda is the location of /boot partition

I tried this, but my hard drive is /dev/sda

All that happens afterwords is

> with a blinking line after it, and if I hit reset, nothing's changed.


Edit: Nevermind, fixed.

[1nt3rfe4r]

Okay, the reason why XP wouldnt boot i guess was because i installed grub on my Xp partition /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/sda (and thus choosing to boot XP i would go back to grub LOL).

but now i have the following problem;

I always had grub go directly to stage 2, but now after reinstalling grub on /dev/sda it goes to stage 1.5 first (and waiting there for about 1 minute) before giving me my beautiful homemade graphical interface.....

Any ideas how to make it go directly to stage 2, thus making booting alot faster? This is a bit annoying....