Rodney G. Garayt wrote: >I had to re-install Win-98 and now I don't have dual-boot with RH 9. I >do I get Grub working again? I've tried "Rescue" but what that does is >seeemingly reconfigure the boot-loader and then goes into the update >mode for RH. It then decides that no upgrades are needed and exits >notifying me that no changes will be made. >My only choice seems to be to re-install RH unless there's a way to >re-create the mbr with grub. I'd recommend saving the current MS Windows 98 MBR (first 512 bytes of the raw boot disk usually either /dev/hda or /dev/sda) to a file as soon as possible using Linux. Boot Linux from floppy or CD using the root kernel argument, root=/dev/<root partition> replacing <root partition> with hd<a><n> or sd<a><n> where a is the Linux disk letter (usually a) and n is the partition on that disk where the Linux root filesystem is located. For example, if the root filesystem is on the first ATA disk on partition 2 use: rescue root=/dev/hda2 After the system boots up, start a shell as root and enter # df -k # mount to be sure that the proper device (i.e. /dev/hda2) is mounted as /. Now save the MS Windows 98 MBR, so it can be restored in an alternate location in case it fails to boot after grub is installed in the MBR: # dd if=/dev/hda of=/root/MBR-w98 bs=512 count=1 Now simply execute the grub install script on the boot disk: # grub-install /dev/hda Grub's master boot record should now be restored and hopefully it will dual boot Linux and Win 98 as it did before. Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list