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i am having a dual boot pc with vista and Fedora10 on it. I wanted to upgrade my vista to windows 7 but i doubt that it may cause some ...
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    Wanted to upgrade vista to windows7 on dual boot fedora

    i am having a dual boot pc with vista and Fedora10 on it. I wanted to upgrade my vista to windows 7 but i doubt that it may cause some trouble as bootloaders may clash or something like this....

    so plz tell me is it safe to upgrade or is their any way out to upgrade without losing linux??

    Thnx in advance.........
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    If you upgrade your Windows install you will have to reinstall the bootloader for Linux afterwards. You can do this with your Fedora install CD in rescue mode. Have you ever installed grub before?
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigtomrodney View Post
    If you upgrade your Windows install you will have to reinstall the bootloader for Linux afterwards. You can do this with your Fedora install CD in rescue mode. Have you ever installed grub before?
    well i haven't done this before..... installing grub....

    is it real hard??

    And how is it done??
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    Grub installation is really easy. After Windows OS Upgrade, boot up from Fedora Installation CD/DVD and select Rescue Mode.
    Execute this at prompt :
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    chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/sda
exit 
exit
    Thats it !
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    Quote Originally Posted by devils casper View Post
    Grub installation is really easy. After Windows OS Upgrade, boot up from Fedora Installation CD/DVD and select Rescue Mode.
    Execute this at prompt :
    Code:
    chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/sda
exit 
exit
    Thats it !
    hey hey i am delighted....

    thnx devils....
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