On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:27 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Phil Schaffner wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:56 -0500, Gentian Hila wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I installed fedora 3 on my machine which has a windows xp in it as > >> well. I installed GRUB as the boot loader not in MBR but in Fedora > >> partition. ... > > > >> So I cannot boot to fedora. I do not want to install GRUB on MBR. > > > > Why not? That seems like the cleanest solution. > > Actually, my favorite arrangement for dual-boot machines is to install > grub in /boot and make /boot active with fdisk. That way, overwriting the > MBR doesn't screw things up like this. (If you do reinstall Windows, you > still have to re-mark the /boot partition active, though.) That can work too, and have done it that way, but still prefer grub on the MBR - with another bootable medium as backup to recover from Bill Gates or others of evil intent clobbering it. :-) ... > >> Please help as I am completely stuck ...... > > > > As discussed in recent "Re: Grub loading stage2 error" thread - you need > > to get the windows bootloader to chain to grub on the boot partition if > > you don't want to use GRUB in the MBR. I have no experience doing it, > > but know it is possible. > > Or install GRUB in /boot's boot record and just make it the active > partition. This is easy to do during installation, but a bit trickier > after the fact. (Making the partition active still has to be done with > fdisk after the first time you install, but not after subsequent installs > if you use the same boot partition). The grub info pages have what you > need, but they take some patience and persistence to read through. Will that work with FC3 on /dev/hdb? Thought he would need /boot to be on /dev/hdaX, rather than /dev/hdbY as is apparently the case, or might have suggested that approach. Phil
