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Mmmm ... loadlin might fix an issue I have? (OT and not really a DSL topic, apologies - hope people can tolerate that).

I have a laptop with XP and Fedora, which dual booted happily with Grub.

Then XP BSoD'd (surprise) after fooling around with gtk2 for Windows (though I don't know that was it) and I couldn't fix it. Without thinking, I reinstalled XP => broke Grub/MBR, then Fedora no boot. Then reinstalled Grub from a livecd => Fedora boot, but no XP. So that's where I left it. I run DSL most of the time anyway.

Googling suggested this to be a very common problem, with no obvious solution other than reinstalling XP and then reinstalling Fedora from scratch (the main reason I keep Fedora on there at all is because of the humongous amount of media stuff I've installed on it, which I'd prefer not to lose).

Maybe if I reinstall XP, add DOS, and use loadlin to start Fedora from within XP ...?

EDIT: I read loadlin cannot work with XP since the latter does not run on top of DOS.
EDIT2: Maybe Bootpart instead? http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm

Anyone have any experience with Bootpart?

WDef: grub should boot windows fine. You'll probably just need to tweak the config a bit (i.e. chainloader, and maybe hide/reorder partitions to make ntldr happy?).

Afaik you could also modify boot.ini instead...

EDIT: looks like bootpart does this

Seems a lot of people have wrecked their multiboot systems the same stupid way with brains switched off - by reinstalling Windows which breaks grub, then reinstalling grub which can't then find the critical info at the beginning of the drive and so breaks Windows, only booting the linux system. It's not fixable by any amount of fiddling with grub conf, I googled. Guess I'll try to get the energy up to tackle it, maybe with Bootpart, which sounds interesting anyway.

Hm, I've always installed an alternative bootloader after installing windows, so I was assuming the environment would be similar. I'm a bit curious about this problem since I'm not seeing what's different from what I usually do - mind pasting some links?

I have reinstalled grub after windoze numerous times, no problems. Might wanna see your links too.

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