Phan Qlo wrote:
Hi, I'm a very fresh user of Fedora that I've installed on a new HD some days ago. Now I'm very in troubles because since the first time Windows doesn't appears at the boot and I think the matter is on /dev/hdb 1st partition "HPFS/NTFS" instead of Linux. This is the grub.conf file plus fdisk of both 1st HD (Win) and 2nd HD (Fc3). Could you confirm and give me any suggestion ? Thanks
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd1,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
root (hd1,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title Win2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cilindri of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 4864 39070048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/hdb: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders Units = cilindri of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 2065 16587081 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdb2 * 2066 2078 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb3 2079 4998 23454900 8e Linux LVM
You have a 5 second timeout in /boot/grub/grub.conf, so your choice screen will only be displayed for five seconds. If you don't hit a keyboard key within that period, the system will automatically boot linux.
To change that timeout to, say, 10 seconds, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and change the "timeout=5" to "timeout=10". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Treat each day as if it's your last...a lot of crying and whining - - usually gets you what you want! -- Sam Sledge - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Good advice. I would also suggest:
Comment out the line that says "hiddenmenu" by placing a "#" character at the left margin. This will allow you to see that you have choices even without hitting a key.
If you want it to boot Windows without any intervention, change "default=0" to "default=1".
Then you will need to up-arrow to choose Linux.
-- Fritz Whittington Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. (Euripides, The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.)
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