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


Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> > 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?

I should perhaps also explain that hdc is the old hard disk, which I
installed as second disk on my machine. The main disk is called hde.
I'm not sure why this is the case. Does it mean that hdc is really the
primary disk and hde the secondary disk? But XP doesn't complain about
anything. And what happened to hda and hdb? I'm quite puzzled...

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Garmt de Vries.

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