Problems dual-booting Fedora Core 3 and Windows XP Pro with GRUB
Jonathan Berry
berryja at gmail.com
Sun Feb 13 20:17:51 UTC 2005
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:06:11 -0000, Stephen Black <steve at sblack.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the replies guys.
>
> I believe that I forced the reiserfs option at the beginning of the install.
> However, I am not sure about this. I have since reinstalled using a manual
> partitioning of /boot = ext2fs; / = ext2fs and a swap partition. All of
> these are on hdb.
Sorry if you wanted to use reiserfs. It shouldn't have mattered what
/ was especially since you have a seperate /boot partition.
> I did use grub-install /dev/hda to install grub to the MBR.
There are a couple of manual methods that would be worth trying. Such as:
# grub
grub> root (hd1,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit
If that doesn't work, then maybe something like:
(it might be good to "umount /boot" before this one)
# grub
grub> root (hd1,0)
grub> install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 p /grub/menu.lst
Also, be sure you check your device.map file is correct. It should be
something like:
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1) /dev/hdb
> I had the same problem as before. (Error 17 during Stage 1.5). You don't get
> as far as a grub command line. You have to reboot with a floppy containing
> grub which boots to the command line. You can then boot either OS by the
> manual method I described in my earlier post.
>
> However, what is really strange is that I have installed grub to another
> floppy. This boots fine and presents me with a lovely Fedora splash image
> and menu containing both the options in my grub.conf file. I can then boot
> both Fedora and Windows XP from this menu.
Did you copy the grub.conf file to the floppy, or is it seeing it on the disk?
> Why though, does it work from floppy and not from my MBR? Obviously I don't
> want a floppy in the computer every time I boot.
Hey, extra security ; ). I believe the reason the floppy works and
from the MBR doesn't is that the floppy has everything it needs to
bring up a full GRUB shell. The MBR holds only stage1 with a
reference to either a stage 1.5 or stage 2 if I read things right. It
seems that something is wrong with this reference.
> Steve Black
Jonathan
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list