On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:43:20PM +0100, Perran (bongo) wrote: > Thank you so much for replying Slash, but a colleague of mine suggested that I boot from my XP installation CD, run the repair console and run 'fixmbr'. I did this and it all worked wonderfully. I'm guessing that Fedora CD2 isn't bootable(?) You are absolutely right. You cannot boot from CD2 in any distribution. > > I am still a little confused though... > > > > > > Where did you install your grub and how did you do the installation? > > I hope grub boot code is on /dev/hda (or HD0). > > > I didn't specify a location for installing Grub, I was never asked to. I'm guessing that it's on /dev/hdb along with everything else Linux-ie. Is that not where it wants to be? > > Do I have to install Fedora on the primary drive (/dev/hda) or just grub? > > Ta, Bongo > Well actually you were asked during the Linux installation. The boot program should always be installed on block 0 on the primary drive or /dev/hda in your case. The Linux can be installed on a partition (not block 0 which contains the partition table. Any partition will do as long as it is identified correctly to grub. /dev/hdax, /dev/hdbx are all possibilities, with x being a number from 1-4 in most cases. -- ======================================================================= How much of their influence on you is a result of your influence on them? ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
