On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 22:59, Matthew Larson wrote:
> /dev/hda1 is my windows partition
> /dev/hda5 is my linux partition.
> 
> should I run 'grub-install /dev/hda1' or 'grub-install /dev/hda5' ???

Probably /dev/hda, since you most likely want grub in the main boot
record area of the disk.  Otherwise it will never get booted.

Michael

> 
> Thanks for the help
> 
> On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 15:52, Phillip Hellewell wrote:
> > 
> > 1. Boot with RedHat in rescue mode or knoppix or a boot disk or whatever
> > until you can get to a login shell.
> > 
> > 2. Login as root and then follow these steps:
> >     a. mkdir /hd
> >     b. mount /dev/hda1 /hd
> >        (replace hda1 with the correct partition where linux is stored)
> >     c. chroot /hd
> >     ( Now your root directory / corresponds to /dev/hda1 )
> > 
> > 3. Run /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda1
> > 
> > 
> > Good luck.  Hope it is not too complicated.
> > 
> > Phillip
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 10:50:12AM -0700, Matthew Ryan Larson wrote:
> > > A re-installation of windows ate my boot-loader, and I can't get back into
> > > linux.  I figured the install CD's would fix this.  So, I went through the RH 8
> > > wizard, picked the option to add features to my current installation, picked to
> > > re-install my boot loader, followed the options, but got an error stating
> > > something to the effect of "No kernal packages were installed on your computer,
> > > your boot loader will not be modified" and was told that the installation was
> > > complete.
> > > 
> > > Thinking that re-installing a kernal would fix this, I went back through the
> > > installation wizard, picked the option to customize packages to be installed,
> > > picked a kernal to install in addition to re-installing the boot-loader, and got
> > > the same error message as above.
> > > 
> > > What should I do?
> > > 
> > > Matthew Larson
> > > 
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