Re: dual boot with no current /boot partition

t hanks for the reply
sure enough, i found the boot folder and the grub.conf did have the dual
boot boot syntax but had the 'hiddenmenu'
parm, so i commented it out and now i get a menu with fedora and win2k but
it goes by too fast to select
win2k and goes right into the fedora boot, so i'm making progress, i think
trying to determine if there is another parm somewhere that controls how
long menu is displayed before
the default is invoked


"decrepit" <""mikelayzell\"@netscape .net"> wrote in message
news:43d77172$0$13454$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> bbxrider wrote:
> >
> > the directions i've seen to create dual boot after the fact indicate i
need
> > to copy the /boot partition to a fat32.
> No that doesn't sound right at all, you have to edit the
> /boot/grub/grub.conf file to include the windows installation.
>
> see the grub manual for help, I printed it out when I had to do it.
> (type, man grub)
>
> Now I'm guessing, but your /boot is not a seperate partition that is
> automatically mounted at /boot but part of the / partition
>
> > i'm guessing at this point i can run druid somehow to create the missing
> > partitions, but since i don't have the installed version
> > of the /boot with whatever should be there, is there someway to recreate
it,
> > or some other way to create the dual boot system???
> >
> >


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