At 3:04 AM +0500 11/7/05, Enlightened Moderation wrote: >On 11/6/05, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>At 12:14 PM +0500 11/6/05, Enlightened Moderation wrote: >>>I did a new installation of Fedora Core 4 on a system with 2 hard drives >>>and which already had Windows XP installed. The configuration before >>>installing Fedora Core 4 was as following: >>>hda 20 GB has two ntfs partitions with windows xp installed in the first >>>bootable partition. hdb 40 GB had only one 20 GB bootable fat32 partition. >>>Rest of space i.e. 20 GB was set aside free for Fedora Core 4. >>> >>>I allowed Fedora to do automatic partition in the free >>>space reserved.Also, I allowed to automatically select the place to >>>install grub ( I did not opt for advance grub options). >>> >>>The installation proceeded normal until it congratulated me for completing >>>the installation and to reboot the system. When I did a reboot, however, I >>>did not get any grub boot loader prompt, and instead booted straight into >>>Windows XP like before. >>> >>>I figured out that Fedora did not install the boot loader in the MBR of >>>the first drive and instead installed in the first sector of /boot in the >>>second drive. Therefore, I made my BIOS to boot from the second drive >>>(hdb). However, I get a prompt telling me "Missing operating system". >> >>The BIOS change may have renumbered the drives so grub was confused. >> >> >>>Please let me know how can I correct this to have a dual boot system with >>>windows XP and Fedora Core 4. >> >>You can set up your boot.ini file to chain to grub if you want. You need >>to copy the grub bootsector from the linux partition (or wherever it was >>put) into a file on your boot drive and add a line to boot.ini. >> >>I used the rescue CD to copy the bootsector, mounting a floppy and then >>using dd to copy the bootsector to a file on the floppy. I just stumbled >>through the process, probably using man a lot. I then rebooted into >>MSWindows and copied that file onto my C: drive as C:\linux.bin, and added >>a line to boot.ini, something like: >> >>C:\linux.bin="FC3" >> >>In my case, I also had some trouble booting MSWindows, as I had Extended >>Partitions that got renumbered when I added Basic Partitions. I don't >>think you will have that problem. > >I have tried to follow the above advice but in vain. I don't know what I am >missing. This is what I did: > >Booted from first cd with linux rescue > >mounted my fat32 partition as /mnt/hdd > >dd if=/dev/hdb2 of=/mnt/hdd/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 > >Then booted into windows xp > >copied the linux.bin file to c drive as c:\linux.bin > >edited boot.ini to have a new line at the end > >c:\linux.bin="Fedora Core 4" > >Rebooted the system and selected to boot from Fedora Core 4. > >But still I cannot boot. The display screen just goes blank with cursor >blinking at the top left corner. > >Please note that fdisk -l showd that hdb2 was 102 Kbytes Probably 102 MB. >and was set for boot. Therefore I copied the first sector from hdb2 to >linux.bin. When it did not work, I tried the same thing copying first >sector from hdb1, but again without any gain. Well, I'd say that hdb2 was the right one. I don't know what is wrong, but I'd guess that the grub install isn't quite right. I'd try the rescue CD and re-install grub onto hdb2 and recopy the boot sector as before. If that doesn't work I'd have to ask for help myself. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
