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

>
> I'll give you an exact account of what I did.
>
> * I have 4 CD's for installing Fedora Core 2. I insert the 1st one in
> the CD drive, and boot from there. This takes me to a graphical
> installation program.
>
> * I choose to install Fedora on hdc, keeping hde for XP.
>
> * I choose automatic partitioning, which gives the following result:
> Device Mount point Type Size (MB)
> /dev/hdc1 /boot ext3 100
> /dev/hdc2 / ext3 18478
> /dev/hdc3 swap 896
>
> * I choose to have GRUB installed on hdc1 (the first sector of the boot
> partition). The other option is to have it installed on the MBR, but I
> don't want to mess with my XP installation.
>

Your grub.conf looks like this you say:

default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root(hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title Other
rootnoverify(hd1,0)
chainloader +1


I am not sure this is correct, but it most likely depends on your BIOS
settings. I suspect that hdc is hd1 whereas hde is hd0.
Try changing them.

If that doesn't help, try the alternative way: booting from hdc.
You can probably select this is in the BIOS. It does however require
that a bootloader is present in the MBR of hdc.

You can then boot XP through grub, which is far easier.

Or even easier: use lilo instead of grub.

Eric

PS. er is ook een groep nl.comp.os.linux.installatie, dat is misschien
handiger

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