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| Hi guys, I am about to give Win Xp Pro 64 a whirl, and I have an issue.
I am dual booting (two hard drives) Linux and Xp pro now using GRUB installed on the MBR. I have the Xp HD set to master and the Linux jumped to slave. Now when I install WinXp 64 it is going to erase the MBR and consequently GRUB. Now, I am lanning on trying to reinstall GRUB on the MBR using
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/sda
off the rescue disc, but if for some reason it doesn't work I am going to try using the Windows bootloader. Now, I know it should work just fine, since before my brother in law wrote it to the boot.ini when I was dual booting Xp in english, and Xp in german on another HD. But the problem is, he added the line, I didn't, so I don't know what to write.
What I am looking for is if some can write out teh bootloader to give the choice to boot from the Linux HD also 
I know it should look something like this...
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="FedoraCore 4" /fastdetect
But not to clear on the specifics.
Thanks ahead of time.
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| IIRC you can't get this to work with Linux on a seperate drive, it needs to be on a seperate partition on the same drive if you want to use the NT Bootloader.
You should be able to use a live CD, mount your system, chroot into it, and reinstall grub. The only reason you would be having problems is if your liveCD cannot see your SATA drive [since you said sda].
Write your questions down on the back of a $20 dollar bill and send them to me.
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| | Well sda is actually my thumbdrive, I just copy pasted as a general command line to get the idea across. I am going to try the rescue disc now that I have 64 installed |
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