Dual boot (Installing vista after fedora installed)

[Anji_fedora]

I have both vista and fedora 8 now. But unfortunately vista got crashed(Anyways is windows).


Now i have to reinstall vista which rewrites my boot sector and after that i will not be able to boot with fedora.


Now how to get my dual boot option exactly as i have now, after installing vista?

[glennzo]

Originally Posted by Anji_fedora

I have both vista and fedora 8 now. But unfortunately vista got crashed(Anyways is windows).


Now i have to reinstall vista which rewrites my boot sector and after that i will not be able to boot with fedora.


Now how to get my dual boot option exactly as i have now, after installing vista?

You boot with the Fedora DVD and run rescue mode to re-install the boot loader. It will pick up on the Vista install and add it to the boot menu.

[Anji_fedora]

In rescue mode it will go to command line how to re-install boot loader there?

[glennzo]

The command line prompt should show sh-3.2#. Typically you type chroot /mnt/sysimage and grub-install /dev/sda. If there are no error messages grub is likely installed properly and you can reboot. You should then see your boot menu.

[Anji_fedora]

Thanks........


Could you please tell why this chroot /mnt/sysimage command is used?

[glennzo]

As you step through the rescue boot process you will see "Your system has been mounted under /mnt/sysimage. Press <return> to get a shell. If you would like to make your system the root environment run the command chroot /mnt/sysimage. The system will reboot automatically when you exit from the shell."