Can't get GRUB installed.

[Timothy Murphy]

Ted Gervais wrote:

> I am having trouble booting up core6.  I installed it earlier today and
> after trying to find a way to get Grub to work I formatted the drive and
> started over.
> 
> Now I am back at the same prompt with no core6 running.  Grub does not
> appear and the result is - Windows comes up rather than linux.
> 
> I am totally lost now.  There is no sign at all that there is even Linux
> installed on this computer, and yet I just took off centos which was
> working fine and it used grub as its windows manager.
> 
> I have two harddrives (hda and hdb).
> HDA is for Windows and HDB for Linux.
> 
> That is how it was with centos and previous versions of linux such as
> core5.  It always worked fine.
> Now I get nothing when I reboot the machine other than windows..
> 
> What am I overlooking?  And is there a way that I can bring up this
> installed version of Fedora (core6) using the rescue disk?  If this is
> possible what would be the boot line to get things running?

You haven't said how you tried to get grub installed,
in particular where you installed it.
Perhaps you installed in on /dev/hdb
and your machine is looking for its bootloader on /dev/hda .
If so, you could try telling your BIOS to look at hdb first.

Also you could try running your first Fedora CD in rescue mode
(as explained I believe when you put the CD in),
and use fdisk to look at your disks.
I must admit I prefer to use Knoppix for this kind of thing;
why not download Knoppix to a CD and see what it finds?




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