Jima wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Florin Iucha wrote:
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>>On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:36:36PM -0500, kcbnac wrote:
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>>>I have Grub installed as bootloader for RH 9, and MS Windows (which 
>>>launches it's own menu- 98 or XP)  I have to reinstall XP, so how do I 
>>>make a back-up of my current Grub setup, and restore it once XP is done 
>>>doing it's damage to the MBR?  Or do I need to do an 'upgrade existing 
>>>Linux installation' from RH 9 to RH 9 to get it to overwrite the MBR?  
>>>      
>>>
>>You don't need to back it up. Just make a grub floppy disk (with
>>grub-floppy) and make note of the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst
>>(print it or write it down).
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>
> I suspect this could be made even easier by doing:
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># insert blank floppy, run as root:
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>`grub-install /dev/fd0`
>
># shutdown, install windows
># boot off floppy; should give you grub splash screen
># log in as root again and run:
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>`grub-install /dev/hda`
>
> That ought to get grub back in place.  Anyone is welcome to correct me if 
>I'm wrong.
>
>     Jima
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Well, that sounds the easiest, Jima, and being that my Linux skills are 
slim, I think it's my best chance.  Thanks!

Keith


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