On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 18:53 -0400, rgheck wrote: > I've just installed F11 on my wife's machine, which is some cheap > Gateway thing. Everything is working fine except that Vista (I'm hoping > to be able to get rid of it for her, but not yet...) will not boot from > grub. It starts to boot, then dies and dumps me into the System Recovery > thing. I was able to restore the MBR as Vista wants it to be, and then > it would boot fine again, and so I can use the popup boot chooser either > to boot Vista or to find my way into grub. But this is not really what I > want. I'd rather just use grub. Am experiencing the exact same thing. I have used vista AND windows 7 and got the same result. Vista does what you experienced, and Windows 7 gets a boot mgr missing. Goign to post both my grub.conf file and output of df -h to show how they each relate to what root/partitions are and maybe someone can see the problem.. [root@scrappy ~]# more /etc/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd1,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sdb2 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=12 splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.29.5-191.fc11.x86_64) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.x86_64 ro root=UUID=b5dd6f24-c252-4d51-bb85-99d04f023247 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.x86_64.img title Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 ro root=UUID=b5dd6f24-c252-4d51-bb85-99d04f023247 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64.img title Rawhide rootnoverify (hd1,4) chainloader +1 title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 Notice above, Fedora and rawhide installs are both hd1 (sdb) and windows is hd0 (sda). [root@scrappy ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 260G 3.8G 243G 2% / /dev/sda1 1008M 50M 908M 6% /boot F11 shows itself as sda when really it's sdb? -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY Fedora Project - Bugzapper, Tester, User, etc.. miketc302@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
