Re: Grub, Dual Boot

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On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 17:05 -0400, Jim wrote:
> On 10/01/2009 04:41 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
> > 2009/10/1 Jim<mickeyboa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >    
> >> Dual booting with WinXP and Fedora 11.
> >>
> >> Hard Drive 0    sda1  WindowsXP
> >>
> >> Hard Drive 1    sdb1  /boot   Fedora 11
> >>
> >> Isn't the command  grub-install  /dev/sda  what you do to write grub to boot
> >> from
> >> sda ?
> >>
> >> I ran that command from fedora 11 but it still wants to boot from WindowsXP
> >> .
> >>      
> > you need to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. the line `default=___' should
> > say `default=1' if F11 is the 2nd entry
> > on your list.
> >
> >    
> Here is my menu.lst file.
> I do have a separate /boot partition  sdb1
> WindowXP is on sda
> Fedora 11 is on sdb
> With this menu.lst, I did a,   grub-install  --recheck /dev/sda , and 
> when I do a reboot I get a Error 21.
> 
> Thanks for your responds.
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boot into rescue mode

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/sda

what is output of?

cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
fdisk -l /dev/sda
cat /etc/fstab

Craig


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