Re: Fedora Core 2/Windows XP dual boot: selecting Linux doesn't work

g.devries@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Now when I restart the computer, I get a screen where I can choose
> between XP (default) and Linux. Booting XP gives no problem, but when I
> choose Linux, the screen goes black for a second, and then returns to
> the same "choose OS" screen. No matter how many times I try, even if I

Fix the boot loader config - that menu entry is pointing to the mbr
instead of to the linux kernel.

> I also tried booting from the Fedora CD in rescue mode, and using dd to
> create a boot image (dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=linux.bin bs=512 count=1), but

What for? Why are you copying the boot record of hdc1? Did you put one
there? If so, why? How are you chaining to that boot record from the
mbr on hda?

> for some reason I can't mount my floppy drive or get access to the
> network, so I have no way to copy linux.bin to my Win drive...

You can make a small fat partition somewhere and put the file there and
then copy it from windows. And you really want to load a floppy or
network driver!

Tell us about your boot loader and its config.

Peter
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