On 6 Oct 2006 at 1:28, John Bowden wrote: > 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'm a Linux Newbie, period. However, I did manage to get this aspect working and the following link helped me understand what I needed to do. http://danleff.net/myarticles/fedorainstall/linuxinstallharddrives2.html Just got my printer running through my SMC router/print server after a week and half of trial and error. Next is getting my Haupagge PVR350 to work. This one could be tough. -- Andreas (Andy) Roddau BitBuilt Software http://www.bitbuilt.net Misspelled? Impossible. My modem is error correcting!
