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

Garmt de Vries <g.devries@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:

>> This seems to show that NTLOADER is doing the right thing, it is
>> loading the file and running its contents. I would believe it loads
>> it the into the right place in memory too. What could it be that went
>> wrong??

> No idea. I also messed around with LILO, but without more success than
> I had with grub (all I got was "LI 99 99 99 ..." on my screen). So I

But that's definitive. That is a bios error saying "I cannot boot from
there". Apparently your bios cannot boot from hdc (or at least the place on
hdc where the boot stuff is).

Put the boot stuff somewhere else.

Peter
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