On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 21:47 -0400, Jorge A. Colazo wrote: > I could not find help in the archived messages for this: > > I am switching from FC1 to FC4. My machine has 2 hard drives, hda with > Win XP and hdb for Linux. > > I noticed during the installation process that FC4 no longer seems to > give the option of creating a boot floppy or cd (as FC1 did). > > I do not want to install GRUB or LILO, since I will use Linux only > sporadically , and then I feel more convenient to insert a boot floppy > when I need it to start Linux rather than touching the MBR ( i know a > couple of fellows who had problems with the boot loaders). > > My question is : Can I still anyhow make a boot floppy or CD to start > FC4? How? Install grub into the partition you install Fedora onto rather than the MBR (there is an option in the installer to do this). You then have a choice of either: (a) adding an entry to your existing XP bootloader menu to boot Linux (this does not affect your MBR); this can be done using for example bootpart (http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm). (b) make a grub floppy that will chain-load the version of grub you installed onto the Fedora disk. It's better to chain-load grub rather than just copy the kernel/initrd etc. entries from the Fedora grub.conf into your floppy's grub.conf file because with the chain-loading method you don't need to fix the floppy every time there's a kernel update. P.S. Please try to avoid posting HTML to this mailing list if at all possible. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
