On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 11:19 -0500, Paul_Malone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> ... snip ...
> I would like to be able to dual boot XP and Fedora. I want to use the
> Windows XP boot manager, a boot floppy for Fedora, or a boot CD for
> Fedora. I do not want to overwrite the Windows XP boot managers with
> Grub. The kernel seems to be too big to fit on a floppy. Is there a
> way to make a boot floppy? What about a CD?
[root@tabb1 ~]# mkbootdisk --help
usage: mkbootdisk [--version] [--noprompt] [--device <devicefile>]
[--verbose -v] [--iso] [--kernelargs <args>] [--size <size>] <kernel>
(ex: mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd1 2.0.31)
[root@tabb1 ~]# rpm -qf `which mkbootdisk`
mkbootdisk-1.5.2-1
[root@tabb1 ~]# uname -r
2.6.9-1.678_FC3
[root@tabb1 ~]# mkbootdisk --verbose --iso --device boot`uname -r`.iso `uname -r`
Installing isolinux... done
Copying /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.678_FC3... done.
Copying /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.678_FC3.img... done.
Configuring bootloader... done.
[root@tabb1 ~]# ll boot*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2197504 Nov 11 20:44 boot2.6.9-1.667.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2203648 Nov 20 20:45 boot2.6.9-1.678_FC3.iso
Burn to a CD and reboot.
No specific suggestions about your grub problems. Nothing obvious, but
I have had grub problems in the past when grub did not see the same disk
ordering at boot time as at run-time when configuring booting - on a
system with ATA-66 IDE, HPT-370 IDE-RAID, and Adaptec SCSI. Using the
grub "find" command on files like /grub/stage1 and /etc/fstab in both
situations and comparing the (hdX,Y) results helped me construct
a /boot/grub/device.map that could be used to install grub after
starting it with
# grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
where hd0 was /dev/hde without the device.map and /dev/sda with it.
I don't use Windoze bootloader and would recommend grub, so can't help
you there; searching the list archives should yield some enlightenment.
Good luck.
