Problem in booting new installation of Fedora Core 4

From: Enlightened Moderation (callret_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/06/05

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    I did a new installation of Fedora Core 4 on a system with 2 hard drives and
    which already had
    Windows XP installed. The configuration before installing Fedora Core 4 was
    as following:

    hda 20 GB has two ntfs partitions with windows xp installed in the first
    bootable partition.
    hdb 40 GB had only one 20 GB bootable fat32 partition. Rest of space i.e. 20
    GB was set aside free for
    Fedora Core 4.

    I allowed Fedora to do automatic partition in the free space reserved.Also,
    I allowed to automatically
    select the place to install grub ( I did not opt for advance grub options).

    The installation proceeded normal until it congratulated me for completing
    the installation and to reboot
    the system. When I did a reboot, however, I did not get any grub boot loader
    prompt, and instead
    booted straight into Windows XP like before.

    I figured out that Fedora did not install the boot loader in the MBR of the
    first drive and instead installed
    in the first sector of /boot in the second drive. Therefore, I made my BIOS
    to boot from the second drive
    (hdb). However, I get a prompt telling me "Missing operating system".

    Please let me know how can I correct this to have a dual boot system with
    windows XP and Fedora
    Core 4.

    Thanks in advance. 

    


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