Dual Boot Problem - Vista & Redhat -Incorrect Primary Partition

[subhotech]

Hi Folks,

Initially I had vista and redhat 9 .. due to some reasons i had to re instal my vista again.. since then the dual boot menu disappeared.. i tried to re install redhat and changing the boot configuration of redhat 9 but i am not getting both the OS back .. I am not aboe to boot linux redhat 9 .. please check the attached screenshots for details .. Vista is getting on fine but no redhat .. every time i try to fix the issue i get an error message "Unable to align partition properly..incorrect BIOS geometry ... plz check the attached files...

Cheers!
Subhotech

[yancek]

Vista and other windows OS's will overwrite your master boot record without notifying you during an installation. This seems to be what happened here. You didn't indicate how you were booting before the re-isntall, Grub? vista bootloader? What do you want to use as a bootloader now?

Red Hat 9 is pretty old and I'm not familiar with it. You will either need to re-install Grub or include Red Hat in the vista bootloader. Which would you prefer?

[whych]

I know its for suse, but the same applies to redhat - try looking at:
Fixing vista multiboot with openSUSE - openSUSE Forums

[subhotech]

At present i am booting using Vista SP1 .. but i want my dual boot menu created by GRUB back .. i have tried re -installing Linux and modifying the GRUB boot loader config but it didn't work ...... so as you adviced i prefer to include linux setting in Vista Boot loader .... i havn't done that before need to find out ..

[coopstah13]

You should be able to reinstall grub and boot with that using Super Grub Disk

[yancek]

Did you re-install Red Hat 9 with its installation CD? What steps did you take to re-install Grub?