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If you installed it on the MBR, you will have to reinstall the windows MBR, then redo the GRUB thing not using MBR.
To reinstall the windows MBR :
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows /XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/document ation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_ldau.asp
With the Redhat Linux CD, you should be able to boot into your installed system. Or go into Rescue mode or something. I use Slackware personally, which is nice ;o).
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
and the sits there doing nothing. I'm not sure what this means, except that (hd0,2) refers to the partition that XP is on. I've changed the number a few times. But that hasn't made any difference. Should I just reinstall windows? If I was going to do that, should I leave linux there and try and let windows sort out the dual boot. I have lost all confidence in grub!
Ok, I had a massive go at reinstalling it yesterday. I loaded windows xp pro. Then I installed linux on a separate partition, and had another partition for the swap file. Then, I installed grub, but not on the mbr, on the linux partition instead. However, during startup. the grub loader wasn't there, instead it just went straight into windows, i'd imagine because grub wasn't in the mbr. So when i get to this point, how do I go about getting grub to start up? I installed powerquest bootmagic. This worked in that it brought up a selection for windows and linux, windows worked. But when I selected linux, it linked to grub, and a grub prompt appeared:
grub >
this didn't do a whole lot, mainly because I didn't know what I was doing. Anyway, I then rebooted and the mbr had been screwed up again. So I need to reinstall again. Back to square one!
http://www.highlandsun.com/hyc/linuxboot.html