Dual Boot Problem in Fedora 5

James Kosin jkosin at beta.intcomgrp.com
Tue Jun 27 17:39:14 UTC 2006


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Claude Jones wrote:
> On Tue June 27 2006 12:56 pm, James Kosin wrote:
>> Mitsuho Iizuka wrote:
>>> I had a same problem on the same environment. It seems
>>> something wrong in the FC5 installer. I guess manual grub boot
>>> loader setup must be required as follows.
>> I had the same problem also, maybe we should check to see if
>> there is a BUGZILLA entry for this.  This is too many people with
>> the same problem. It may be a problem with us installing on a
>> second hard-drive with the primary one tied up for another OS.
>>
>> -James
>>
>
> Any chance you guys had a different distro on those drives that
> used LILO instead of GRUB? I ask because I've had periodic problems
> overwriting a LILO boot record on the MBR, and have had to try
> again - I googled many references to the issue with some
> recommending fairly drastic solutions. In my case, I once had to
> use a Windows boot disk or recovery console to run fixmbr; on a
> couple of other occasions, a simple retry was all that was
> required.
>
No, GRUB selected on install and everything.  Didn't try LILO, haven't
used since my RH9 days.

- -James
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