* Marguerite Carroll Walton [Tue, 9 Mar 2004 at 23:08 -0700] <quote> > I had my hard drive recently partitioned and installed Linux on half of it. > Unfortantly, I later had to reinstall windows and when I did, it made windows > the active partition without a boot manager. So I am currently stuck on the > windows side and can't seem to make Linux the active partition. I've been > trying to read up on fdisk and Knoppix applications to help me with this, but I > haven't really found any solid answers to what I should do without really > messing my computer up. Help would be appreciated. Thanks. > > Maggie
Linux is still on there, you don't have to worry about that or reinstalling. Unless you messed with your linux partition during the win install. You can boot off of the install cd, and choose rescue mode. (most linux cd's have this) If it's a knoppix cd, there's a key you can press to get a list of boot options. I don't remember what it is, but I think it tells you on the boot screen. Once you get into linux again, just run lilo or grub-install, whichever boot loader you're using, reboot, and you're good to go. Also, what other people were saying about reinstalling the boot loader from the cd should work to, but I've never done it that way.
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