Re: Dual Boot Problem
From: Jessie Veltman (sassnak_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/14/05
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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:32:19 -0500 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
On 6/14/05, M A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Jessica L. Veltman wrote:
>
> > I tried doing all of that, but the results were the same. After the
> > installation restarted, my computer booted straight into Windows again.
>
> If you are going straight to windows, either grub isn't installed at all,
> or it is installed in the boot sector of a partition that isn't being
> booted from. Boot into rescue mode (from the cd type linux rescue), look
> at (/mnt/sysimage)/boot/grub/grub.conf to see where grub thinks it is
> installed, and if it is on a partition rather than the mbr, use fdisk to
> see which partitions are bootable, and make this one the only one that is.
>
> Michael Young
>
I tried booting into rescue mode, and checked grub - it at least
thinks it is installed to /dev/hda. hda is where Windows is installed.
this is the way it should be, isn't it?
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