My system is composed of 3 160 gb sata hdd and a 200 gb pata hdd the bios is the same one that the motherboard came with. When I tried to install Fedora I created a 50gb /root drive, a 2gb swap, and a 100mb /boot. There has been something that has been bugging me on this computer though. When I install windows I run into an issue by where I can't install it onto one of the faster drives, rather im stuck installing it on the pata drive. Could this be similar to the issue you were referring to about the boot loader? And if so how would I go about resolving it? -Jerome -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mikkel L. Ellertson Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 4:30 PM To: For users of Fedora Subject: Re: fedora 7 install Jerome Kan wrote: > Hey, > > > > I’ve been trying to install fedora 7 for awhile now on a dual boot > system with windows; however, for some odd reason whenever I install > it, it seems to refuse to boot up in either windows or linux and im > not exactly sure why. I made a custom partition for the linux, and > read over and followed the installation manual. The issue will most > likely end up being some stupid small issue that I over looked; > however, any help in this matter is much appreciated. > > Sincerely, > > Jerome > More information would help. How big is the hard drive? Did you create a separate /boot partition? How new is your BIOS? What do you see when you try and boot after installing Linux? It is hard to say what the problem is, but it may be that the /boot/grub directory is on a part of the hard drive that the BIOS can not access. This is less common with today's systems, but it can still bite you with large drives and older systems. You can also run into problems when you have more then one drive, and the drive with the /boot directory tree is on a controller that is not accessible by the BIOS. You can also run into problems if the disk order during install is different then the disk order when you are doing a normal boot. (Installing/upgrading to an external USB drive can be interesting.) You also have the option of using the Windows boot loader as the main boot loader, instead of Grub. You install Grub to your root or /boot partition, instead of the MBR, and then create a file with the Grub boot loader for use in Windows. (I don't have the URL for the HOWTO on doing that handy, but I am sure someone could provide it if you want to go that route.) I am sorry I can not provide more specific answers, but without knowing your hardware/disk layout, this is the best I can do. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
