Fedora Core 5 Installation

[Brad Bonkoski]

Check out the grub manual (search grub manual on google)
Especially the configuration options.

My guess is that you have 'hiddenmenu' in your grub.conf, which does not 
display the menu, but goes directly to your default OS (windows in your 
case)
Or you have the timeout set to 0 which again would just boot right away.

The manual also has the instructions for what commands to issue to alter 
your OS boot instructions at boot time. (of course those are not 
persistent, so if you want the change to span you have to change the 
options in the grub.conf file.

To fix, I would suggest using your fedora boot CD to boot into rescue 
mode, and then mounting the partition where grub is  installed (/boot 
partition) and making some changes to the config file, especially 
commenting out the hiddenmenu option if it is there, and perhaps upping 
your timeout value.

HTH
-Brad

Yasir Shoaib wrote:
> Hello
>  
> I have been using Red Hat Linux for a long while now, usually at 
> University. This time I tried installing it on my Dell Inspiron 630m 
> notebook, however, I am facing a lot of issues regarding the 
> installation, and there is not enough helpful info to guide me. Also, 
> I am not sure whom to contact in this case, so am writing this email 
> to you.
>  
> The first thing I did was burn Fedora Core 5 CDs and tried installing 
> it on my hard drive partition that I created by resizing my Windows XP 
> Pro partition. Because I wanted to dual boot Windows and Linux, and 
> also from the instructions in the Fedora Core 5 Installation Manual, I 
> opted for GRUB boot loader. However, I didn't see any option of 
> changing the boot loader or switching to LILO, which forced me to go 
> with GRUB. I also choose not to overwrite the MBR. Windows was chosen 
> as my default boot Operating System. After the first installation 
> process, when my notebook rebooted, I didn't see any options of Linux 
> OS, and my notebook was booted directly to Windows. To support dual 
> boot, I created a FAT32 shared drive, and managed to pass the 
> Fedora.bin boot information to Windows. I modified the boot.ini file 
> in Windows and then when I rebooted my machine, I was able to see 2 OS 
> options: 1. Windows 2. Linux.
> However, now, when I click on Linux, GRUB loads and I am not sure what 
> command to type into it. Also the reference materials I have looked at 
> haven't been much help at all.
>  
> Could you please let me know what I should do next to see the Linux OS 
> running and still maintaining the dual boot of Windows and Linux.
>  
> Thank you very much.
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