Jeff Vian wrote: |On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 15:01 +0200, Mattia Milleri wrote: | |>I have a problem with the bootloader, at the end of FC4 install you are |>asked which of partitions of the disk you want to be bootable, and you |>have to choose those that you want and give a name to them. |>I have one partition with WinXP and another one with FC4, so I wanted |>the possibilty to choose during system start which OS I wanted to boot, |>but the boot loader boots only FC4 even if I wanted the possibility to |>boot WinXP also. |>I can rewrite the boot-loader to boot WinXP but then it's impossible to |>boot FC4. |>Maybe I did something wrong during installation process? In which way I |>should choose the partitions that will be bootable? Maybe I had to |>de-select the default flag on FC4 for booting. |>Thanks for help! |> |For a few seconds during the start of the boot there is an option to hit |a key and get the boot menu. The menu is hidden by default but that can |be disabled. If you display the menu, then you can select whatever other |os you have set to boot. | |If you look in /boot/grub/grub.conf and comment out the line that says |"hiddenmenu" then the menu will display every time, not just when you |press a key at the proper time. The length of time the menu is |displayed/available is set by the timeout line in the same location. | Thanks, I wasn't sure how to reply to Mattia without using the old "read the boot screen" comment. Thank you, problem solved!
