bootloader blues

[Stephen Esquibel]

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> 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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