On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:01 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote: > I just installed fedora Core6 and now I can't boot up the system. > > I have a dual boot system here; winXP on a drive by itself (hda) and fedora > core6 on its own drive (hdb). > > After things were installed with grub as my default boot manager I can't > get into fedora 6 at all. A boot takes me right into windows with no > stopping at the grub process. > > To try and get this working I have tried doing a 'reinstall' of core6 but > even though the process said it was installing grub all over again, it > never appeared. > And than I thought of using the rescue disk and trying to get things going > that way. And that failed. But here is what I had done.. > > Fedora Core6 rescue disk - boot. > ran chroot /mnt/sysimage > Than I ran grub-install /dev/hda, and that gave me "/dev/hda does not have > any corresponding BIOS drive. > So I ran grub-install again but used /dev/hdb with the same result > . /dev/hdb is my core6 installation drive. > I even ran grub-install /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hda1 all with the same result: > "/dev/hdX does not have any corresponding BIOS drive." What does you BIOS say about the drives? > > That leaves me at a standstill with no way to get into my Fedora > installation. Is there a way using the resuce disk to boot into core6? > I don't know there is a way, but if there is that would be nice to know. > > The bottom line is - what is wrong with the grub installation process that > it won't write anything to anything to get the system to dual boot.?? > > > > --- > Ted Gervais, > Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, Canada > -- ======================================================================= Zhizn' prozhit'--ne pole pereiti. [Life's a bitch.] [Well, okay. lit., to live through life is not as simple as crossing a field. Happy now?] -- Russian proverb ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
