Help me get back my Grub

[nagnagnag]

Hello,

I was a loyal MS fan but now detest their products for creating so much inconvenience to us poor users. I now have fully migrated to RHL but still require to use windows once in a while to edit office documents for proper formatting (OpenOffice and MSoffice still not 100% perfect). I have tried using WINE but have never got it working. Would love to in future.

Anyway, enough of that.

My crappy windows bugged out on me with its dumb "your Windows requires activation" notice. So I downloaded a crappy version of WINXP that had been cracked. I burnt this illegal piece of crap to a CD-ROM and booted it and reinstalled the piece of crap over the old version. The piece of crap booted fine. However, the piece of crap put its own crappy boot loader on. No problem I thought, I just need to use FDISK and deactivate the crap partition and activate the RHL partition.

Nope. Message came back after boot that said no operating system installed. Why that piece of crap!

I downloaded and booted FC10 Live and took a look at the Linux ext partitions and they were all there and fine with all my data. So the problem is with GRUB.

So the question is: can anyone tell me how to get back my GRUB so that I can boot my Linux again, and on the rare occassion, access my piece of crap on the other partition.

FC8 is installed on the existing partition by the way. I am not ready to upgrade to FC10 just yet.

[jayd512]

You have a couple of options here. You could use the SuperGRUB CD to re-install GRUB. Or you can re-install it with your Fedora 8 DVD. If you can post the output of

fdisk -l

we'll get you going.

[nagnagnag]

Thanks!

Will give SuperGRUB a go. Any probs will definitely get back to you!

Sorry for my Windows rage. I Feel better now.

[rituraj.goswami]

well pop the linux disk and go tothe shell mode of linux. that means in microsft language rescue mode. while you boot the linux disk instead of selecting installing linux select the linux rescue. if you are using red hat type "linux rescue" at the shell. this will get you the shell. do a 'fdisk -l". this will get you the patitions of the hardisk drive. you won't need anything except the nameof the hdd i.e. hda or hdb, sda or sdb, etc. so take that name nad then do "chroot /mnt/sysimage" if you are using redhat and then type "grub-install /dev/XXX" wherein the XXX is the hda orhdb or sda or sdb. if you have any problem post the fdisk -l result andi'll be glad to help.


well , for opening office download open office. search it in google.

[devils casper]

Boot up in Rescue mode using Fedora or RHEL installation CD/DVD. It will drop you at shell prompt. Execute this

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/sda
exit
exit

Machine will reboot and GRUB will be back in business.