[ILUG] Grub Boot issue

[conor.daly at cod.utvinternet.com]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:22:36PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Darragh Bailey thought:
> 
> Now reinstalling Windows has messed up the bootloader and the Windows install,
> 
> So far it is getting to stage 1.5 and then reporting and error 5, however I have
> seen this before and blowing away my linux install and reinstalling to force
> anaconda to reinstall grub has worked previously and will work again. (note
> kernel files must be installed before anaconda will reinstall the bootloader.)
> 
> Now I'm pretty much sick of having to reinstall FC3 each time the bootloader
> gets humped by Windows doing something stupid, and no I'm dropping Windows just
> yet, in future yes, but not just at the moment.

Deal with the problem, not the symptoms...

Don't install windows.  Given that MS Windows is doing the screwups and
the MS Windows installer is blowing away your grub, I'd suggest you image
the MS Windows partition now (you've just reinstalled it right?)
(http://www.mondorescue.org) and when MS Windows screws up again (in a
week or so) just restore the partition from the image.  MBR won't get
touched and grub will be happy.

Conor
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