GRUB loader - help
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:05 pm
There are some extremely knowledgeable people on this forum so I thought I'd start here.
My old laptop (discussed previously) has W98SE and Feisty on it in dual boot - W98SE was installed first (1st 20GB partition of the disk) and then I installed Ubuntu (2nd 20GB partition on the disk) I'm going to presume it was the install of Feisty that added the GRUB boot loader.
I want to do a clean install of W98SE over the old corrupt copy (I've got all the files off that I want/need) but this, I'm certain, will knacker the grub loader when a new MBR is written by W98SE.
So, having searched the GRUB pages (I'm not sure what version of GRUB Feisty uses (Legacy or '2') I'm being dense and can't see what I need to do to protect my GRUB loader (or be in a position of immediately putting it back once I reinstall W98SE).
Any help much appreciated.
Any alternative would be to do as a work colleague suggested and not bother with GRUB and use XOSL instead but this just seems to be a way of muddying the waters and leaving me with an unbootable machine.
My old laptop (discussed previously) has W98SE and Feisty on it in dual boot - W98SE was installed first (1st 20GB partition of the disk) and then I installed Ubuntu (2nd 20GB partition on the disk) I'm going to presume it was the install of Feisty that added the GRUB boot loader.
I want to do a clean install of W98SE over the old corrupt copy (I've got all the files off that I want/need) but this, I'm certain, will knacker the grub loader when a new MBR is written by W98SE.
So, having searched the GRUB pages (I'm not sure what version of GRUB Feisty uses (Legacy or '2') I'm being dense and can't see what I need to do to protect my GRUB loader (or be in a position of immediately putting it back once I reinstall W98SE).
Any help much appreciated.
Any alternative would be to do as a work colleague suggested and not bother with GRUB and use XOSL instead but this just seems to be a way of muddying the waters and leaving me with an unbootable machine.
Must try harder - my excuse - I have a 2yr old with suspected swine flu and NHS Direct won't answer the phone...
all the best... with both situations...