On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 10:53 -0500, bobgoodwin wrote: > Tim wrote: > > >On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 08:01 -0500, bobgoodwin wrote: > > > > > >>I have installed Windows 2000/NTFS on /dev/hda and FC4 on /dev/hdb but > >>Grub is never displayed, Windows is booted immediately. I've tried > >>installing grub in boot and mbr as offered in the installation routine > >>with the same result. > >> > >> > > > >You've put GRUB onto which drive? > > > >Some people dual-booting with Windows find it easier to keep Linux > >completely on its own drive (bootloaders, and all), and put an entry > >into the NT loader file so that the Windows boot menu gives you the > >options of which drive to boot from. > > > > > I don't recall seeing an option to do that with Windows 2000 but it may > not be a menu item? > There is an option offered right at the install start that I didn't > comprehend ... > This is not an option within Windows. It is easy to do, but requires some manual config. > I solved the problem by doing 'Linux rescue' from disk #1 and then > 'grub-install /dev/hda' > to fix the problem. However I still don't understand why the > Install/Upgrade routines that > I ran several times did not accomplish this? I spent several days > messing with this problem and > the bad hard drive. A learning exercise perhaps? > Maybe partly doe to the bad drive? > > > > > >>I have a CDROM with some utilities on it that permit me to boot the > >>computer with some basic Linux functions; I see that fdisk shows both > >>drives toggled to "boot." > >> > >> > > > >That shouldn't be a problem (assuming you mean they've got an "active" > >partition that *could* be booted). > > > > > So I will accept that as a normal indication. > > Thanks. > > Bob Goodwin > >
