bingus Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) I've installed Mandriva 2007... and then XP.. which of course over wrote my boot sequence. I know there was an option to repair it with the Mandriva DVD... but I have since "misplaced" my copy of it. Is there a quick and easy way to fix this up, without having to download a whole CD/DVD again? Edited March 29, 2007 by bingus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 You need a CD to be able to recover the boot loader. You only need the first CD. When you boot from this, you can choose rescue mode, and then an option on the menu is to fix the boot loader. Then you'll be back to normal. If for some reason, the Windows option isn't there, you can do this within Mandriva after getting your system back and booting into Mandriva again. Normally of course, you should always install Windows before Linux to save from encountering this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 There is also a way to boot Linux using the windows "boot manager" but it's somewhat complicated. You can read about it here, or google for other tutorials. Unfortunately I think this may require having access to your Linux install. Do you have a linux livecd anywhere? Any Linux livecd should do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingus Posted March 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2007 Ah OK, cool. I dunno.. next Mandriva should be out soon, right? Maybe I'll just wait until then, and give it a nice, sexy new install! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 30, 2007 Report Share Posted March 30, 2007 2007.1 is due out, some newer packages than the previous version of 2007 which was 2007.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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