Re: Can't get dual-boot to work, always goes to Vista

On 19 Jun, 23:33, Mike Silva <snarflem...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I posted this earlier to linux.redhat.install, but I think that may be
a low-activity group so I'm posting it here. I'm new to Linux, though
I've been using PCs since they came out. I've got a machine running
Vista and I added a 2nd hard drive to try out Linux (both drives are
160GB). I have Fedora Core 6 and have run through the installation
and modify install (many times now!) and when I reboot I never get a
choice of OS to start up - the machine always comes up in Windows.
Frustrating!

Here is my drive information as given by the install program:

VolGroup00 152480
LogVol01 swap 1792
LogVol00 ext3 150688

Hard Drives
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 ntfs 146726 start=1
/dev/sda3 ntfs 5899

/dev/sdb
/dev/sdb1 /boot ext3 102 start=1
/dev/sdb2 VolGroup00 LVM PV 152523

So, can somebody tell me what I need to do differently to make this
all work? I'm amazed and disheartened that I am already stuck on page
1, sentence 1.

You've left out some vital information. In particular, what is your
bootloader? Grub, or LILO? What do your boot loader configuration
files say? And where did you install the boot loader?

I'm betting that the Windows boot loader is on /dev/sda, and you
selected to install the Linux boot loader on /dev/sdb, and the Windows
boot loader is automatically being detected first.

.

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