Hi. I recently installed Fedora Core 3. I am running a dual boot system, with GRUB as a boot selector.
My question is if i were to update Windows, will the NTLDR overright my boot configuration?
And the other question is, there is a command in linux from shell that shows the last logs to the system, like when i connect a device, it shows the device name it is using. Can anyone tell me what it is?
thanks.
Firstly, *some* Windows updates will overwrite the boot loader, but not most. If you *reinstall* windows, it will most certainly overwrite it. The easiest solution is to use a live linux cd (pref the same distro you are using) and google for their "fix bootloader" HOWTO. On most distro's you can backup your grub configuration by copying /boot directory to a usb key or floppy disk (if it will fit).
Secondly, there's a directory called /var/log which contains various system logs (dependant on distro to some extent). The main system log is called /var/log/messages. On some systems these files are readable only by root.
To see which logs are available from the command line, type:
To view them from the command line, use:
- sudo view /var/log/messages
To filter a logfile for a string (e.g. to find errors), try:
- sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep error
*never* edit or alter log-files. ever.
hth
-cybervegan
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