bootloader blues

[Stephen Esquibel]

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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