Installing grub to dual boot

[Mike Reinehr]

On Saturday 11 June 2005 04:28 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
> I have seen the traffic this has caused and thought that it would be
> answered promply. It has been but most miss the obvious. I, as you all
> know have been boot dual for ages, not saying how long. However in most
> cases inserting the CD and booting installed OS then reinstalling grub
> fixes the problem. There is an exception when it does not work, when the
> MBR has been corrupted and will not overwrite, rare but I have had this
> happen too often over the years. Always caused by a windows problem.
>
> The only way I have been able to overcome this is to slake C: and
> reinstall. Backups with Ghost or similar essential.

	Would booting from a DOS floppy boot disk and running fdisk /mbr help in this 
case?

> BTW I have never managed to get windows to control the dual boot
> sucessfully for very long.

cmr
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