FC4 booting problem?

mukund jampala mukund.miscregisters at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 05:34:24 UTC 2006


Do u get the grub prompt
if u don't get send me the /boot/gurb/grub.conf file
also diverted /boot contents to a file
Mukund Jampala


On 1/3/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> ----
> 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
>
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