On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:46 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote: > I am having trouble booting up core6. I installed it earlier today and > after trying to find a way to get Grub to work I formatted the drive and > started over. > > Now I am back at the same prompt with no core6 running. Grub does not > appear and the result is - Windows comes up rather than linux. > > I am totally lost now. There is no sign at all that there is even Linux > installed on this computer, and yet I just took off centos which was > working fine and it used grub as its windows manager. > > I have two harddrives (hda and hdb). > HDA is for Windows and HDB for Linux. > > That is how it was with centos and previous versions of linux such as > core5. It always worked fine. > Now I get nothing when I reboot the machine other than windows.. > > What am I overlooking? And is there a way that I can bring up this > installed version of Fedora (core6) using the rescue disk? If this is > possible what would be the boot line to get things running? ---- try booting the FC-6 Installation Disc 1 or the rescue CD and typing at boot prompt... linux rescue after it boots, it provides a message and offers to 'mount' any FC-6 installations it finds (good idea) You can confirm the installation by typing at command line... fdisk -l /dev/hdb it should list at least 2 partitions on hdb... approximately 100 mb /boot partition balance of partition in one big LVM partition If you can locate those, you could try... chroot /mnt/sysimage grub-install -v /dev/hda which should install the grub boot loader onto the boot blocks of the Windows drive. then 'exit' and 'exit' should cause it to reboot and bring up grub bootloader Craig
