On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:39:15 -0500, Musical1too musician wrote:
> I need to repair a Windows partition on a dual-boot Windows XP
> Pro/Mandriva 2007 laptop with no floppy drive. The Mandriva partition is
> working fine now. In the repair process Windows is likely to replace GRUB
> with the Windows bootloader. I was thinking it would be wise to back up my
> /boot/grub/menu.lst to a flash drive before starting to repair anything.
>
> Does the Rescue mode in the Mandriva installation DVD re-install GRUB, or
> is only LILO available?

If nothing else boot cd/dvd to console
mkdir /junk
mount -t auto /dev/XdYZ /junk
chroot junk
and use the boot loader of your choice.



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On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:39:15 -0500, Musical1too musician wrote:

> I need to repair a Windows partition on a dual-boot Windows XP
> Pro/Mandriva 2007 laptop with no floppy drive. The Mandriva partition is
> working fine now. In the repair process Windows is likely to replace GRUB
> with the Windows bootloader. I was thinking it would be wise to back up my
> /boot/grub/menu.lst to a flash drive before starting to repair anything.
>
> Does the Rescue mode in the Mandriva installation DVD re-install GRUB, or
> is only LILO available?
>
> Thanks.

Easier to simply save the boot record with dd and then boot a Live CD and
restore it after MS is done messing around.