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where my linux is??

4 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/where-my-linux-is.94366/

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dhawalsant Original post #1
Jul 30, 2008 at 8:55 AM
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.....
desiibond
Jul 30, 2008 at 9:35 AM
This should help you : *www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/recover-grub-bootloader-after-win-install-315424/

Windows overwrites linux boot loader.
alok4best
Jul 30, 2008 at 9:39 PM
yeah, just install the Linux bootloader again..done
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Jul 31, 2008 at 8:52 AM
Thanks friends....

i was able to fix the problem with ur support