On Sunday 18 January 2004 7:47 am, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
I currently have two computers, a tower and a laptop, which dual boot v9.0 and Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional using the GRUB boot loader. I'm getting ready to upgrade W2000 to Windows XP Professional and would like to know what alligators are out there in the swamp just waiting to rise up and nip me? In particular, am I going to foul up anything with regard to booting?
One possible problem is that after the Windows installation, your machine may boot directly to Windows and never give Grub (or Lilo) a chance to get into action. The solution (for Grub) is after Windows is all installed, start up your system from the Linux installation CD. Then start the "rescue system". Mount your Linux root partition (/dev/hda2, say) at /mnt with mount /dev/hda2 /mnt Then change the root to /mnt with chroot /mnt Now mount what can be mounted with mount -a which will utilize your Linux /etc/fstab. Finally, call /sbin/grub-install, which will reinstall the Grub bootloader. You may need to twiddle the Grub configuration (you can do it through Yast) to get your Windows partition back onto the Grub boot menu. Paul Abrahams