On 6/14/05, M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Jessica L. Veltman wrote: > > > I tried doing all of that, but the results were the same. After the > > installation restarted, my computer booted straight into Windows again. > > If you are going straight to windows, either grub isn't installed at all, > or it is installed in the boot sector of a partition that isn't being > booted from. Boot into rescue mode (from the cd type linux rescue), look > at (/mnt/sysimage)/boot/grub/grub.conf to see where grub thinks it is > installed, and if it is on a partition rather than the mbr, use fdisk to > see which partitions are bootable, and make this one the only one that is. > > Michael Young > I tried booting into rescue mode, and checked grub - it at least thinks it is installed to /dev/hda. hda is where Windows is installed. this is the way it should be, isn't it?
