What will happen when Windows had already removed boot manager?
When we installed MS Windows after Linux installation, it is more than probable that Windows had already overwritten default boot manager. In that case, we have to recover boot manager in a way allowing us to normally boot both systems. There are few possibilities out there, making us able to cope with that problem. One of the easiest ways is to insert a LiveCD of our distribution into CD or DVD drive and then mount root partition of our Linux system using chroot tool, changing for root directory of our distribution. If we assume that our Linux system is installed on hda5 partition and file system is reiserfs then we should issue a sequence of following commands: # cd /tmp # mkdir our_root_dir # mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda5 our_root_dir # chroot our_root_dir Now, we can act the same way as if we were logged in into our Linux system. The final step is to install boot manager, which was wiped out by MS Windows. Shall we decide to make it our next step, we should follow provided bellow ste
