https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188111
On 4/13/06, Jimmy Montague <rhetoric101@xxxxxxx
> wrote:
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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