On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 14:33 -0800, John Thorburn wrote: > I have a Dell system which has 2 HD's and a current > install of Win 2K. I wiped out the 2nd HD and > installed FC3 on it. I used the Auto Partition option > for this drive and installed GRUB to handle the boot > load stuff. However, the system doesn't give me the > option at boot to use FC3 or Win 2K; it just goes to > Win 2K. Obviously you have not succeeded in overwriting the W2K MBR. > I tried placing GRUB on hda and then on hdb. Neither > worked. Some more detail might help diagnose the problem. Did you do this by rerunning the installer? Did you choose the MBR (presumably /dev/hda) or the boot partition (perhaps /dev/hdb1)? > I tried to reinstall the Boot Loader and, when > I do, FC3 tries to install Firefox and then tells me > that no images were loaded and that none of my boot > loader changes will take effect. Again, not quite clear what you mean. > I've tried alot of stuff so far and I'm at my wit's > end. Any help would be appreciated as I'm new to > Linux/FC. Have you tried to boot in rescue mode? If so, is your system found and mounted? If so. have you tried: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/hda ? Phil
