[cumbria_lug] Problem booting linux after Win XP reinstall on adual boot machine

[Mark Andrews]

You'll have to forgive me as I really am a linux newbie but I get some of
what's happened...basically when you installed WinXP again it was greedy and
wanted to take over the computer, consequently it removed grub from ya first
drive. I think ya need to get some sort of bootdisk to boot into linux and
then you can setup grub again from there...I know there is an option to boot
linux from a floppy but don't know how to do it. Maybe ya do or some other
geek can help...
Oh and yes I am a geek...I'm not a nerd but I am a geek.

Mark ><>

-----Original Message-----
From: cumbria-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:cumbria-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of
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Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 10:15 PM
To: cumbria at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [cumbria_lug] Problem booting linux after Win XP reinstall on adual
boot machine

Hi all,
   would be much obliged if anyone could help with the following as I am
currently Linuxless!

I have (or rather had) a dual boot PC with Windows XP on primary and linux
(RH9)
on secondary. BIOS was set to boot from IDE 0 from where GRUB allowed me to
choose which OS I wanted. 

I recently reinstalled WIN XP (because it had become so goddamn awful!) with
the
idea (no doubt naive) that I merely had to set BIOS to boot from the
secondary
drive and It would just boot linux. Then I could setup GRUB again.

But no. BIOS reached IDE 1 and said OK, but then just hung.

What is stopping it booting and what do I need to do to get it to boot
again,
other than reinstall RH9?

All help gratefully received!!!

Guy

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