Re: dual boot with no current /boot partition

bbxrider wrote:
Sorry bbxrider, after I went to bed I realised that you might have missed the 3 second window for selecting the boot menu.
core2 didn't "hide" the menu, but from core3 it does.
I've left mine on hidden, you have to watch the boot process, if you want another operating system, you've got 3 secs to hiy any key, to get the boot menu.

One of the lines says "default" it'll probably be on 3, but if you change that to 10, it'll give you 10 seconds to choose.
Glad you're making progress!!!
Mike 
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

.

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