Re: bootloader blues

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Thanks Stephen. I tried that already. When I tried to boot the system, the BIOS told me it couldn't find an OS.

Jimmy

Stephen Esquibel wrote:
Try changing your BIOS to boot from the Linux drive rather than the Windows one. Then have the Grub, which is already installed there, choose the OS.

Just a thought.

On 4/13/06, *Jimmy Montague* <rhetoric101@xxxxxxx <mailto:rhetoric101@xxxxxxx>> wrote:

    Tim wrote:
    > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 08:41 -0500, Jimmy Montague wrote:
    >
    >> So my problem is that, having installed Core 5, I can't boot Core 5
    >> because the boot loader seems to have installed itself on the
    Linux
    >> drive INSTEAD of on the Windoze drive. That's to say that,
    whenever I
    >> boot the system, the Windoze boot loader appears INSTEAD of the
    Grub
    >> boot loader. My attempts to repair and/or reinstall Core 5
    yield the
    >> same result.
    >>
    >> Anyone got a solution?
    >>
    >
    > Install GRUB to the right place...
    >
    > Well, that is what you need to do, and you can work out how to
    do this
    > from the GRUB info file (the man file is quite abbreviated).  If you
    > can't follow it, and/or want more specific help, supply more
    information
    > about how your drives are on your system.  Post us the output
    from the
    > following command, issued as the root user:  fdisk -l
    >
    > (That's a letter l, not a number 1.)
    >
    >
    Tim:

    Read this post in a full-screen window.

    My system has two 40g Maxtor ide drives. Both are on the primary
    strap.
    One is jumpered Master; the other is Slave.

    Windoze is on the Master drive. FC5 is installed on the Slave.
    Sorry: I
    can't decipher the MAN page. I don't know how to copy bootloader
    to the
    MBR of the Windoze drive..

    When I ran fdisk -l, as you suggested, here is the result:

    Disk/dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track/ 4866 cylinders
    units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

    Disk/dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track/ 4866 cylinders
    units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System dev/hda1 * 1 4865 39078081 7 HPFS/NTFS

    dev/hdb1      *            1            13       104391        83
    Linux
dev/hdb2 14 4866 38981722+ 8e Linux LVM


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