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

g.devries@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thanks for a quick reply.

> Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>> 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 tried to fix that, but I'm not sure I did it right.

Better become sure!

> My /boot partition is on /dev/hdc1, the / partition is on /dev/hdc2.

Doesn't matter.

> When I run the installer,

What is an "installer"? Please fix your boot loader, whatever it is ...

> sets it as a default. That's fine. In the "advanced options" dialog, I
> set the boot loader to be installed on the first sector of the boot
> partition, rather than on the MBR. But this way, I can't boot.

I don't know what you are talking about. Please deal with the boot
loader, not with an "installer"!


> I added a pointer to /dev/hdc1 to the boot loader config, and set that
> as default -- still no luck.

I don't understand what you mean. Please be EXACT: state what is your
boot loader, what is the config file, what you have done to it (before
and after pics please), and why you think yur mds shuld be effective,
and what yu have done to embed that ew config int the MBR, or whatever
other BR is pertinent. I don't know what your boot sequence is and you
are not describing it!

>> 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'm afraid you lost me there.

What do you mean? Answering the questions would provide us with the
reasoning behind the (seeming random) things you are doing and thus
allow us to check the correctness.

> Since I'm not at all knowledgeable on these issues, I have to go with
> what info I find on the web. I followed the steps outlined at
> http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/16/1919205&tid=129&tid=49
> (http://tinyurl.com/5hw5g):

> "The next step in the process is to save a copy of the Linux boot
> partition.

No no no. Boot RECORD. And you haven't made one, so you can't ""save
it"!

> As to why I copy from hdc1, that's where the /boot partition is, as far
> as I can tell from using the df command.

The /boot partition has nothing to do with anything. It has no
sigificance to you in this respect. IF you were to put a boot RECORD on
the boot partition (and you can put it anywhere you have a fancy to),
THEN you could copy it to msdos and use the win boot lader to chain to
it via boot.ini.

But why? DO you have the win boot loader in the MBR?


>> Tell us about your boot loader and its config.

> I use GRUB (the default loader on the installation CD).


Ahhhhhhh. Well, in that case it has a command line shell. When you boot
enter the shell and edit the entries. You should be able to locate the
kernel (on the boot partition) and root partition (not boot) via tab
completion.

> As I said, it's
> installed on the first sector of the boot partition, hdc1, and the
> entry for "Fedora Core 2" points to hdc2, where my / is.

Please be EXACT. Show the config. And no, it should not "point to"
hdc2 if I understand you correctly. The ROOT device should be
configured as /dev/hdc2, but there should be no indirection. Showing
us the config would allow us to say.

Peter
.

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