I need some help or direction as to where to find help... I am attempting to install Fedora 1 (from the 'Fedora for Dummies' DVD) on a Intel D865PERL Motherboard with a 3 Ghz Intel Pentium 4, 1024 Mbytes of memory. I have two hard drives which are identified correctly by anaconda and by the 'linux rescue' process. These drives contain Windows XP Pro and I am trying to set-up a dual boot system. XP is on (hd0) the Primary drive and on (hd1,0) the Slave while Fedora is on (hd1,1) a 40 Gig partition. Everything goes quite smoothly until I reboot and receive a screen with the word GRUB and a flashing cursor. I tested the DVD with the media test option, and have used the stage1, stage2 grub images to create a grub boot floppy so I can attest that they are in good order, since they allow me to boot into Windows XP. Things are also complicated by anaconda reporting the the disk-image required to creat a boot floppy is to large for a floppy and hence only leaving me with the option of booting from the DVD in an emergency. Actually the auto partitioning of the Slave drive left hdb1 as ntfs, and created hdb2 as boot, hdb3 as '/', hdb4 as extended, hdb5 as swap, but according to the map provided by anaconda the linux partition are first, followed by the ntfs one. Originally the free space that was used for the linux partitions had been an unused 40 Gig ntfs partition which I deleted. An earlier discussion on this list suggested a possible mismatch of the disk partition id type and suggested being sure it read '83' - my test showed it set to '82' so I made the change, but that appears to have had no affect on the problem. I have now returned the type to '82' so as not to complicate matters. The word GRUB and flashing cursor does not give many indications as to what is happening. When I use the GRUB floppy disk I can boot to Windows XP using the commands found in the grub.conf file in /boot/grub. But when I attempt to even display the splashscreen with splashimage=(hd1,1) I receive the Error message "Error 23 'Selected Disk Does Not Exist'". The same error occurs when I attempt to use any of the other commands from grub.conf 'boot (hd1,1)' and kernel and initrd. But as I noted earlier the install process and the rescue process both identify and use the slave drive. I have re-installed the full system three different times, I have even changed the default OS from Linux to DOS but still get the word GRUB and the flashing cursor. The next step will be to change grub.conf to remove the spashimage line and boot to a default of DOS - which should work to at least allow me to use the machine. But how do I ever get to be able to boot Fedora? At the moment I can only get to the 'linux rescue' system to read the documents on GRUB and to check the .conf files. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thank-you
