On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:36:36PM -0500, kcbnac wrote: > I have Grub installed as bootloader for RH 9, and MS Windows (which > launches it's own menu- 98 or XP) I have to reinstall XP, so how do I > make a back-up of my current Grub setup, and restore it once XP is done > doing it's damage to the MBR? Or do I need to do an 'upgrade existing > Linux installation' from RH 9 to RH 9 to get it to overwrite the MBR? You don't need to back it up. Just make a grub floppy disk (with grub-floppy) and make note of the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst (print it or write it down). Reinstall XP, then boot with the floppy, when you get the grub console enter the information that you got from /boot/grub/menu.lst then you can boot into linux. For instance if you have linux boot/root on /dev/hda3 enter root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinu$whatever root=/dev/hda3 boot Note: at step 2, if you don't know the exact name, grub has filename completion, so TAB away... After you got in linux, reinstall grub. grub setup (hd0) Cheers, florin -- "NT is to UNIX what a doughnut is to a particle accelerator." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030721/7d83e90b/attachment.pgp