[ltp] some ibm windows/linux questions

[John Van Ostrand]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 15:30 -0400, David Tansey wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a couple of questions, but first let me state my problem.
> 
> I ran grub-install /dev/hda1 by accident and can no longer
> boot into windows. I tried some remedies online but haven't
> solved anything. (The most promising one was using dd to
> backup the bootsector and then put in the backup boot sector
> into the superblock of /dev/hda1.) 

Can't you just make sure the following lines are in your grub.conf file?

title MS Windows XP
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1

Then use Grub as your boot loader?

How were you booting into Linux prior to this?

> So I guess I need to reinstall windows. I used to be able to
> mount my windows partition, but even that is impossible now. I
> can't remember doing anything differently -- oh well. 
> 
> Is there a way to use the IBM recovery CDs and not wipe my
> linux install? Maybe some way to make some partitions read-only? 
> 
> I have my system wonderfully configured now and I really don't
> want to have to reinstall everything.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -David
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