On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:46 -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote: > 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. :-) If you use the NT/2000/XP bootloader, a subsequent install of another version of NT/2000/XP will update the bootloader rather than clobber it, and the entry for booting Linux will stay intact. > ... > > >> 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. Bootpart (http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) is a tool you can use under Windows to configure the Windows bootloader to add an entry to chain-load another bootloader (e.g. grub) from another partition. I use it fairly regularly and it's very convenient. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
