Al Sparks wrote: > I tried to install CentOS 4.4. This was on a machine where I've got > Windows XP on the first partition (hda1). > > CentOS, like most of the distros will automatically install Grub in > the MBR unless you tell it not to. In fact it will wipe the MBR first > pretty early in the install. > > Here was my problem. During the install, the second CD had some sort > of read issue. So I had to abort the install by intervening with the > power switch. > > So when I rebooted, I couldn't boot into my XP because the MBR had > been wiped. > > I pulled out an Insert distribution and did a RAM only boot up. > > I could still see my NTFS partition where XP was located, and I could > also see where the CentOS installed the /boot partition in /dev/hda2. > > Now I finally solved this problem by going back and doing a minimal > install of CentOS which doesn't require the second CD. > > I've now got something in the MBR, and I'm up an running. But does > anyone have suggestions on how to semi-manually install grub so that > it sees what it calls the "other" partition to boot into? Is there a > tool out there that will do that? > > I mean, what if the install had hung up on the first disk instead? > === Al > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > you can boot into rescue mode, chroot, cd /boot, and do a grub-install there. alternatively, you could boot the WinXP into recovery more and do fixmbr, removing grub completely been there, done that, got the t-shirt . . .