On 6/13/05, Jessica L. Veltman <veltjes@xxxxxxx> wrote: > As seems to be the trend with Fedora, I am once again having problems > with dual booting with XP. I love Fedora, and have installed every main > release, but have never gotten dual boot to work right the first > install. This time though, it isn't the usual problem. I got all the way > through the installation process, until I had to restart my computer. At > which time, my computer restarted straight into windows. No grub, > nothing. Not even an error. I installed GAG, and it can see the Fedora > partitions (which are on a seperate drive from my windows install), but > it cannot boot them. It says that it cannot find the boot sector. > I would truely love to run only Fedora, and tried it for awhile, but my > school requires windows for some very specific software that WINE won't > run. Also, I'd prefer to use the 64-bit version, which as far as I know > still doesn't have Flash or Java support for the 64-bit browsers. > Granted, I could always install the 32-bit browsers, but it would be > nicer to not have to do that. But basically it comes down to I have to > dual boot or not use Fedora, and its not working for me right now. Has > anyone else had this problem or know how I might fix it? Thanks! > > -Jessie Try booting with a Windows XP CD and running 'fixmbr' in the recovery console. That removes any instances of GRUB from the MBR. I had this same problem, and after I did that and re-installed Fedora, GRUB re-installed itself to the MBR, and it worked fine. Let me know if you do that and it doesn't work, or if it does for that matter! -- PHP rocks! "Knowledge is Power. Power Corrupts. Go to school, become evil" Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. However, I must say that the ENTIRE contents of this message are subject to other's criticism, corrections, and speculations. This message is Certified Virus Free
