Hi,

I'm sure this question has been asked hundreds of times before but I couldn't quite find the answer I wanted while Searching; so here it goes again:

I have a desktop machine with dual boot:
1) Linux Fedora Core 6
2) Windows

Actually I had it working fine before; using the GRUB Linux loader it gave me the option to boot either Fedora or Windows. The Windows o.s. was then Windows 2000 Server installed on C drive.

Then just today, loading first Windows 2000, I installed Windows Vista Home Premium onto E drive.

Now the only loader available is the Windows one which gives me the option to load either Windows Vista or Windows 2000.

I know the GRUB sector is still there waiting to be activated again but I forgot now how to do it.

Here's a copy of my disk partition map:

http://www.techspot.com/gallery/data/500/DiskMangmt.jpg

I'm quite sure the GRUB loader must be in the "102Mb sector" depicted on the previous image.

What is the proper way to reactivate it?
Should I use the Fedora Core 6 install DVD -which I do have- or should I do it from the Vista Disk Management?

BRgds

Thanks Mictlantecuhtli,

how about creating a LILO boot disk on another machine, could I use it on my problem machine?

I have access to another machine that has Fedore Core 6 as well; would I find there any option to create a LILO boot disk? It would have to be a boot CD because my problem machine doesn't have a floppy drive.

Is there such a thing as a GRUB boot disk (as in diskette or CD)?

BRgds

Hello I got almos the same problem, but i think i did not install grub correctly,

I got a new dell inspiron 1501 delivered yesterday and saw that vista took 51% of the ram in standby and so on and was thinking about debian already when i order it. So yesterday I downloaded Debian 4.0 for amd64 and installed but there was some problems occured in the install becous I did not create a swap and I got to the grub installer found windows vista and continued, then it announced a error and skipped the step and I installed LILO and now I think my windows is lost, is thgere any way I could install grub correctly and find windows now? I tried

Code:

apt-get install grub

But it only gave me "0 new packages 0 updated 2 untuched.

Anyone got any help for me how to get it properly, should I try to install debian from scratch again and make a swap partition from the partition its installed now?

Only thing I done since I installed debian is

Code:

apt-get install kde 
apt-get install x-window-system
apt-get install firefox