Re: FC3 GRUB boots directly to win2k

From: mjt (mjtobler_at_removethis_mail.ru)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:03:12 +0000

Thufir wrote:

> I just installed fedora core 3 on the same hard drive as windows 2000,
> a dual boot system.  I selected "advanced bootloader options" and to
> have GRUB installed not on the MBR, but, IIRC, a partition.  This
> resulted in booting directly into windows.  A clean install of FC3,
> this time with GRUB on the MBR, results in a "countdown" which gives me
> a choice of OS's.  Why didn't GRUB give a menu with the first install
> method?

... because you opted to install it to the root's partition,
and the win2k boot loader was still in the MBR: you know,
the MASTER BOOT RECORD. in order to boot a system where grub
is in the root's (or /boot's) partition, you have to chain-load
to it from a boot loader in the MBR 

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