Phil G. wrote:I have a dualboot setup, and had to replace my video card. No problems in ML. But W2K won't recognize the new card and the video is corrupted. So I need to reinstall W2K.If you put w2k back into the same partition, your Mandrake bootloader menu, /boot/grub/menu.lst or /etc/lilo.conf, will already have the proper information to boot windows or Mandrake. However, installing windows installs the windows bootloader to the MBR. You will just have to reinstall Mandrake's bootloader.
I think this will this screw up the bootsector so that I can't boot into Linux. And if so, how do I correct it?
Phil
One way to do this is boot CD1, press F1 when the screen say you can, boot with rescue, and you will have a choice to reinstall the bootloader. Otherwise, if you boot a generic rescue disk, mount your linux install, chroot to that mount point, and run /sbin/lilo for lilo or sh /boot/grub/install.sh for grub, that will reinstall the Mandrake bootloader to the MBR.
Rolf
Thanks, Rolf!
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