FC4 booting problem?

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 22:00 -0700, under.actuate at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone could help me with an issue.  Here's some
> detail.
> 
> 2 hard drives:
> - The first is dedicated to Windows XP.
> - The second is partitioned so that Fedora Core 4 is at the front and
> extra space is given for Windows at the back. 
> 
> While I installed FC4, I made sure to set FC4 as the default boot.  So
> I expected it to boot after the system was rebooted.  But, Windows
> automatically boots.  Do you have any ideas what the problem could be?
> Why would Windows automatically boot?  And how do I access the GRUB
> GUI to choose between FC4 and Windows? 
> 
> I would really appreciate some help.
> 
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sounds like when you installed, you changed where it installed the grub
bootloader. It needs to be installed in /dev/hda

boot disk 1 again

type 'linux rescue'

follow instructions (chroot /mnt/sysimage)

type 'grub-install -v /dev/hda'

reboot

Craig