On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 01:28 +0000, John Bowden wrote: > Hi list. > I have just installed Fedora on its own 40GB hard drive on a > dual boot system. I told the installer to use the empty 40GB, > (slave) and go for the default partition - lvm set up. Grub was > installed on the master disk as for default. When I reboot I > don't get any grub screen giving me a choice of o/s , it just > goes straight into xp. Is there a key combination I can press to > get into grub? I have been using Mandriva for about two years so > I'm not quite a Linux newbie, but I do not have much experience > with Grub, as Mandriva uses Lilo. I rebooted with the Fedora > core 5 DVD and went into the repair option, but not being a > linux comand line expert could not do much with it. I typed > grubconfig and got no recognised command. I then typed grub and > got to a grub - bash like shell, after which typing grub help > gave me a list of options none of which seemed to be much help > to me as a Fedora / grub newbie! Can any one give me some > advice? I had the same problem with trying to dual boot a windows xp on disk 0 and fedora on disk 1 So I loaded fedora on disk 1 by unplugging disk 0 and changing the bios to switch the slave drive to disk 0, then loaded fedora on it with grub on the slave drive. After that I plugged disk 0 with winxp back in but left the bios to boot from disk 1. I then added the following to grub to get it to boot winxp title WXP map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 wasn't the way I'd like to have done it, but wasn't ever able to get past the situation you are experiencing. erich
