Gary Rickert wrote:
This must be added in the section labeled [OPERATING SYSTEMS] and normally after the line related to loading XP.I installed Fedora, default server on a new slave drive on my HP pavilion a320n XP system. When booting after the install, the fedora boot will not accept my user or root password. Under "linux single" I can see that the user and root accounts exist. I can create a user, and that works OK. I cannot login.
When I try to boot XP, the HP box goes into recovery and wipes out the boot.ini modifications when I:
If you wish to use the NT Loader to dual boot the system you will need to do the following:
When you get to the point that Anaconda asks where you wish to install the bootloader, make certain you chose your FC boot partition, e.g. /dev/hda2, and NOT the MBR. You can use either GRUB or LILO, it doesn't matter. After the install and before you re-boot make sure you make a bootdisk.
Now, when you re-boot do so with the bootdisk so you can boot into FC. Once booted, log in as 'root' and insert a blank floppy then copy out the boot sector like so:
mount /dev/fd0
dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/mnt/floppy/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
(hda2 may not be the actual partition you need to copy, I use this as an example)
You can now ls /mnt/floppy to verify you have a 512 byte file named "bootsect.lnx" and then:
umount /dev/fd0
Next, boot into XP and copy the bootsect.lnx file to the root directory of the C: drive. Edit your BOOT.INI file and add a line:
C:\bootsect.lnx = "Fedora Core"
NOTE: the first OS in the boot.ini file selects which is default, so put the one you want as default first.
Save the file and re-boot. You will see the NT Loader menu offering you either Windows XP or FC. If you choose FC it will jump you into the GRUB or LILO bootloader. If you added your Windows partition in your Linux bootloader during the install you will see a choice for FC or DOS/Windows. If you scroll and choose Windows, it will put you back into the NT Loader menu screen.
It also went into recovery the first time I loaded Fedora, but I am not sure what it did. The end result was that after I booted XP, I no longer got the boot options screen, had to boot from boot floppy to get to Fedora. I am a raw newbie and could sure use some help.
All of your steps above look fine
What do you mean you no longer got the boot options screen?
Using this procedure you are using the ntldr boot options and it should come up with the menu under that for selecting Windows or Fedora. If that is not happening then the boot.ini file did not get changed correctly.
