Please help with MEPIS Installation
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I have Windows and Fedora core installed in my computer. Everything works well before I desided to try to install MEPIS instead of Fedora. MEPIS was running fine from CD but when I start installation of MEPIS on the Fedora partitions I could not make it dual-boot, as I had before. I symply did not seen any option to reset my boot loader. So after intallation I had only MEPIS to boot, rogardless that my windows partition remain intact. Just because I still need windows I was need to reinstall everything.
Please help me with this problem, I definitely missing some thing it should not be hard, and in the same time I do not want reinstalling my windows all over again.
Thanks to everybody who will take time to respond.
More easy way
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Just boot MEPIS, login as "root" user and open file /boot/grub/menu.lst with your preferred editor. At the end of this file add following lines:
title Windows at hda1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
than save file and reboot - normally you'll see also Windows option for booting in GRUB.
NOTE: I expecting your Windoze installation was (as usual) pre-installed before on your PC and booting from the primary partition of the master disk; if it's not so you may play with (hd0,0) value...
Rgds,
-dim
installing
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you can try what dim suggests looks quicker. i beleave i still had problems when i tried it that way it might work for you. what happened to me was lilo was still in the MBR even with grub installed so grub couldn't chainload to windows because lilo over wrote the windows MBR so there wasn't any windows boot to boot.but i can't remember what distro gave me those problems you might have better luck. so try dim's fix first it's faster. sometimes it takes a little work switching distro's.
grub
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kerry, normally lilo will by erased by:
# grub-install /dev/hda
But as I never tested it I cannot be 100% sure 
A very nice document I've found for GRUB multiboot here:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html
as well an excellent survival site: http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/index.shtml
tons of useful information!
Rgds,
-dim
installing boot
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first you must repair the windows MBR(master boot record)with the windows cd by booting from the windows cd and choosing repair then fix MBR. after that put mepis cd in and boot click on install me and reinstall grub to MBR it should see windows now. the problem is grub can't deal with lilo boot loader that fedora uses thats why you have to fix the MBR for windows first. GOOD LUCK!