bootloader blues
Stephen Esquibel
s.esquibel at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 22:16:54 UTC 2006
I had a similar problem. I believe that it had to do with the MBR on the
drive (either one) see the bugzilla report and see if my solution helps at
all.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188111
On 4/13/06, Jimmy Montague <rhetoric101 at att.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks Stephen. I tried that already. When I tried to boot the system,
> the BIOS told me it couldn't find an OS.
>
> Jimmy
>
> Stephen Esquibel wrote:
> > Try changing your BIOS to boot from the Linux drive rather than the
> > Windows one. Then have the Grub, which is already installed there,
> > choose the OS.
> >
> > Just a thought.
> >
> > On 4/13/06, *Jimmy Montague* <rhetoric101 at att.net
> > <mailto:rhetoric101 at att.net>> wrote:
> >
> > Tim wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 08:41 -0500, Jimmy Montague wrote:
> > >
> > >> So my problem is that, having installed Core 5, I can't boot Core
> 5
> > >> because the boot loader seems to have installed itself on the
> > Linux
> > >> drive INSTEAD of on the Windoze drive. That's to say that,
> > whenever I
> > >> boot the system, the Windoze boot loader appears INSTEAD of the
> > Grub
> > >> boot loader. My attempts to repair and/or reinstall Core 5
> > yield the
> > >> same result.
> > >>
> > >> Anyone got a solution?
> > >>
> > >
> > > Install GRUB to the right place...
> > >
> > > Well, that is what you need to do, and you can work out how to
> > do this
> > > from the GRUB info file (the man file is quite abbreviated). If
> you
> > > can't follow it, and/or want more specific help, supply more
> > information
> > > about how your drives are on your system. Post us the output
> > from the
> > > following command, issued as the root user: fdisk -l
> > >
> > > (That's a letter l, not a number 1.)
> > >
> > >
> > Tim:
> >
> > Read this post in a full-screen window.
> >
> > My system has two 40g Maxtor ide drives. Both are on the primary
> > strap.
> > One is jumpered Master; the other is Slave.
> >
> > Windoze is on the Master drive. FC5 is installed on the Slave.
> > Sorry: I
> > can't decipher the MAN page. I don't know how to copy bootloader
> > to the
> > MBR of the Windoze drive..
> >
> > When I ran fdisk -l, as you suggested, here is the result:
> >
> > Disk/dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track/ 4866 cylinders
> > units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> > Disk/dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track/ 4866 cylinders
> > units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start
> > End Blocks Id System
> > dev/hda1 * 1
> > 4865 39078081 7 HPFS/NTFS
> >
> > dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83
> > Linux
> > dev/hdb2 14 4866 38981722+ 8e
> > Linux LVM
> >
> >
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