Installing grub to dual boot

[Keith Antoine]

Mike Reinehr wrote:
> 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

NO, not at all, if the mbr has been corrupted.

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