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Old 30-07-2008, 08:55 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Unhappy where my linux is??


friends....

i have 2 harddisk in my system. one 80Gb n other 40GB where in had 3 partition...
two of 10gb n one of 20 gb(approx)..

i recently installed the fedora 9 provided in DIGIT DVD onto my 40GB harddrive....
giving it 20GB partition....

everything worked fine...
but a day before or two....
when i started my pc to boot into windows xp...
it showed me error.." <windows root>/swstem32/hal.dll missing or corrupt . Please reinstall the file"

instead of installing the file; i installed windows xp again on the 40gb harddisk,
now when i start the pc...

it does not show me boot option to boot into Fedora...
instead it keeps me showing two windows xp option..

one is the one i recently installed...
second option is the previous xp, whose file got corrupted...

now i am not able to boot into Fedora...
please help me out...

please tell me how can i boot into linux.....
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Old 30-07-2008, 09:35 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Default Re: where my linux is??

This should help you : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...nstall-315424/

Windows overwrites linux boot loader.
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yeah, just install the Linux bootloader again..done
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Old 31-07-2008, 08:52 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Thanks friends....

i was able to fix the problem with ur support
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