Re: Boot problem W2k/FC4 -

Tim wrote:

On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 08:01 -0500, bobgoodwin wrote:


I have installed Windows 2000/NTFS on /dev/hda and FC4 on /dev/hdb but Grub is never displayed, Windows is booted immediately. I've tried installing grub in boot and mbr as offered in the installation routine with the same result.



You've put GRUB onto which drive?

Some people dual-booting with Windows find it easier to keep Linux
completely on its own drive (bootloaders, and all), and put an entry
into the NT loader file so that the Windows boot menu gives you the
options of which drive to boot from.


I don't recall seeing an option to do that with Windows 2000 but it may not be a menu item?
There is an option offered right at the install start that I didn't comprehend ...

I solved the problem by doing 'Linux rescue' from disk #1 and then 'grub-install /dev/hda'
to fix the problem. However I still don't understand why the Install/Upgrade routines that
I ran several times did not accomplish this? I spent several days messing with this problem and
the bad hard drive. A learning exercise perhaps?



I have a CDROM with some utilities on it that permit me to boot the computer with some basic Linux functions; I see that fdisk shows both drives toggled to "boot."



That shouldn't be a problem (assuming you mean they've got an "active"
partition that *could* be booted).


So I will accept that as a normal indication.

Thanks.

Bob Goodwin


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