Grub hangs, please help

[wheatstraw]

I have a dual boot setup with windows 98 and Linux Mandrake 7.2, using grub as the chooser.(default from the 7.2 installation). Life was good for the first week, then I tried to boot one morning and grub hung at stage 1. I am able to boot Linux with a boot disk. I cannot boot windows. I have tried a boot disk, and ran fdisk /mbr. It seems to run ok, then when I reboot, grub is still there. I have also tried to remove grub with rm -fr /boot/grub under linux, rebooted with the windows boot disk and ran fdisk /mbr again to no avail. Can someone offer advise to a newbie?

[idealego]

Have you tried reinstalling grub?
I think the command is
sh /boot/grub/install.sh

[wheatstraw]

Originally posted by idealego:
Have you tried reinstalling grub?
I think the command is
sh /boot/grub/install.sh

I figured it out last night. I haven't been able to reinstall grub, but I got into windows. I booted with a win98 boot disk and used sys C: to copy system files to the mbr. It worked! I am going to set grub back up today. Thanks for the advise!