Problem in booting new installation of Fedora Core 4

[Enlightened Moderation]

On 11/6/05, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
>
> At 12:14 PM +0500 11/6/05, Enlightened Moderation wrote:
> >I did a new installation of Fedora Core 4 on a system with 2 hard drives
> >and which already had Windows XP installed. The configuration before
> >installing Fedora Core 4 was as following:
> >hda 20 GB has two ntfs partitions with windows xp installed in the first
> >bootable partition. hdb 40 GB had only one 20 GB bootable fat32
> partition.
> >Rest of space i.e. 20 GB was set aside free for Fedora Core 4.
> >
> >I allowed Fedora to do automatic partition in the free
> >space reserved.Also, I allowed to automatically select the place to
> >install grub ( I did not opt for advance grub options).
> >
> >The installation proceeded normal until it congratulated me for
> completing
> >the installation and to reboot the system. When I did a reboot, however,
> I
> >did not get any grub boot loader prompt, and instead booted straight into
> >Windows XP like before.
> >
> >I figured out that Fedora did not install the boot loader in the MBR of
> >the first drive and instead installed in the first sector of /boot in the
> >second drive. Therefore, I made my BIOS to boot from the second drive
> >(hdb). However, I get a prompt telling me "Missing operating system".
>
> The BIOS change may have renumbered the drives so grub was confused.
>
>
> >Please let me know how can I correct this to have a dual boot system with
> >windows XP and Fedora Core 4.
>
> You can set up your boot.ini file to chain to grub if you want. You need
> to copy the grub bootsector from the linux partition (or wherever it was
> put) into a file on your boot drive and add a line to boot.ini.
>
> I used the rescue CD to copy the bootsector, mounting a floppy and then
> using dd to copy the bootsector to a file on the floppy. I just stumbled
> through the process, probably using man a lot. I then rebooted into
> MSWindows and copied that file onto my C: drive as C:\linux.bin, and added
> a line to boot.ini, something like:
>
> C:\linux.bin="FC3"
>
> In my case, I also had some trouble booting MSWindows, as I had Extended
> Partitions that got renumbered when I added Basic Partitions. I don't
> think you will have that problem.

  I have tried to follow the above advice but in vain. I don't know what I
am
missing. This is what I did:
 Booted from first cd with linux rescue
 mounted my fat32 partition as /mnt/hdd
 dd if=/dev/hdb2 of=/mnt/hdd/linux.bin bs=512 count=1
 Then booted into windows xp
 copied the linux.bin file to c drive as c:\linux.bin
 edited boot.ini to have a new line at the end
 c:\linux.bin="Fedora Core 4"
 Rebooted the system and selected to boot from Fedora Core 4.
 But still I cannot boot. The display screen just goes blank with cursor
 blinking at the top left corner.
 Please note that fdisk -l showd that hdb2 was 102 Kbytes and was
set for boot. Therefore I copied the first sector from hdb2 to linux.bin.
When it did not work, I tried the same thing copying first sector from hdb1,
but again without any gain.
 A..

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