Linux distros will let you boot to a rescue mode. Put in the install CD and see what options you have. It's usually something like press F1 for more options, then you get special boot params like rescue and so on. You will type something like linux rescue root=/dev/hda Maybe someone else can help you restore grub once you get your system booted I'm a lilo man, sorry.

thanks,
 
where can i find lilo to install. i'd rather have lilo too!
 
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dynosis

My suggestion. Stick with Grub until you get used to it, then decide if you want to move to lilo. They both use different syntax to boot, but have some common syntax. Grub us not the problem. This would have happened with Lilo as well, once you restore Windows, it re-writes the master boot record.
 
Windows always wants to be first, so I assume Windows is on hda1, if you restored it. In order to rescue Fedora, you need to know what partition that root is on. Do you know this? If so, then after booting Fedora's cd #1, at the command prompt, type in linux rescue root=/dev/hdax, where x is the partition where Fedora has it root files. You can then use Fedora to restore grub to the MBR. this also asumes that you have Fedora on the same drive as Windows, and you have just one drive in the system (that both Windows and Fedora are installed on). You can then use the graphical utility in Fedora to restore Grub to the MBR. For that matter, if you wish to use lilo, then you should see that choice, as well (to use lilo rather than Grub).
 
The question is, was this a fresh install of Fedora on the system, then Windows would not boot after the Fedora install, or did Windows really crash and you reinstalled Windows?
 
Fedora Core 2 and other distros usng the 2.6 series kernel has a bug in the partitoning utility where the NTFS partition is read differently when trying to boot Windows from grub or lilo. This occurs when you use the Fedora partitioning utility to install Fedora next to a NTFS partition.
 
So, thes econd question is, do you have windows XP on your system or another version of windows. This is not a problem with fat32 partitions.

thank you for your ans.
 
you are correct i have xp and i couldn't boot because of a xp prob. so i restored with ghost and lost grub. when restore finished. i no longer had grub. up to now (3 weeks and counting) i cannot boot to fedora. i have 2 disks. disk1 is xp. disk2 is fedora.
 
i just want to able to get back my linux, getting use to it, and collected some good info.
 
unfortunately, i am still learning the syntaxes that go with it. i learn as i go. and with people like yourself and many others i really do appreciate the help.
 
p.s. linux is more stable then win any win.
 
again thanks

Yes, when you used Ghost, it made an exact copy of the Win install and this included the master boot record.
 
Good, you have linux on a second hard drive. I assume primary master? if so, you can try the rescue mode. Is Linux the only partition on the second drive, or the first partition on the drive? If so, try using the install disk to boot using linux root=/dev/hdb1 at the command line when it appears. If this works, you can restore grub to the MBR. If it works, I will look it up on my system in the graphical mode. Or try the following command in a console as root user;
 
grub-install /dev/hda