Re: Fedora Core 5 + WinXP Pro

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Charles Curley wrote:
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 09:27:37PM +0100, Adam Tunbridge wrote:
I get the feeling dual-boot systems are a /dirty /subject round here but needs must I'm afraid. Right, I'm having issues loading Fedora Core 5. I have 2 hard-drives:

As Aaron pointed out, we need more information. Meanwhile, you may
find http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
useful. He says that your /boot partition must be on your first hard
drive (/dev/hda). I seem to recall that that is not true.

I have just done a similar job and my notes are at
http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html.
Can you boot your install media into rescue mode: linux rescue ?
If so, fdisk -l  is useful.

Also, if your BIOS allows it, set disk 2 as the boot device to get booted on FC5, and we can help from there...

DaveT.


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