On 6/14/05, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jessie Veltman wrote: > > >On 6/14/05, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >>Jessica L. Veltman wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>>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 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>I tried doing all of that, but the results were the same. After the > >>>installation restarted, my computer booted straight into Windows again. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Grub comes up using a hidden menu feature by default. The timing is set > >>to 3 seconds or something low. When XP is set as the default boot loader > >>and you have a quck booting computer with a CRT monitor, you do not see > >>the grub screen at all. Try hitting a space bar during your computer > >>booting. This should display the hidden menu. > >> > >>It sounds like grub should have installed correctly. I do remember an > >>instance during development where I could not get a bootloader to > >>install or work. This was on a computer with Phoenix BIOS. I only tried > >>the install once on this computer and set it aside. This might be some > >>grub boot loader problem with the version of grub on FC4. I believe > >>there are bug reports filed on this issue. I am not sure the bugs were > >>worked out or are still open. Try searching Bugzilla for grub problems > >>related to not installing as intended. > >> > >>Jim > >> > >>-- > >>The best things in life go on sale sooner or later. > >> > >> > >> > >I actually have fedora set as the default, and I have an LCD monitor. > >I tried it anyway and it just came up with a windows boot choice > >screen, not grub. There is nothing in Bugzilla that I could fine but I > >will put it in as a bug. It would be really nice to get this solved :) > >Thanks for the help > > > > > > > > I see the bug that you entered. Bug # 160396 > > I'll check the computer that failed during a test with FC4T2 to see if > it still fails to install grub, even boting from the rescue disc, > chrooting to /mnt/sysimage, then running grub-install /dev/hda and > rebooting. > > Not being able to boot the install afterwards does lead to shelving the > installation attempt. > > I suppose that you tried to boot into rescue mode by typing "linux > rescue" using disc 1. Then when the installation is detected and mounted > as /mnt/sysimage you typed "chroot /mnt/sysimage". After your system > chrooted the installation, you could run "grub-install /dev/hda" and > then reboot. > > If that fails, you can get back into the rescue environment, chroot > /mnt/sysimage, then mount the disc from fc3 which contains the older > version of grub, insert the CD, then mount the CD and change to the > directory which contains the FC3 version of grub. Install the older > package with rpm using the below: > rpm -Uvh grub*.rpm --oldpackage > After the older version of grub is installed, try the "grub-install > /dev/hda" again and reboot. If the system does not come up with the > older grub version, I have no idea as how to correct the bootloader > problem. > > Good Luck! > > Jim > I just tried "grub-install /dev/hda", but no luck. It gave me the error "/dev/hdb1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive". The only thing I can think of is that this is somehow related to the fact that I have a SATA drive on my system. I'm a crazy geek who has 4 hard drives running, 3 IDE and 1 SATA. Both Windows and Fedora are on IDE drives though, so I'm not sure whats going on.
