can't boot FC5 (grub)

Dan grinnz at gmail.com
Fri May 5 18:21:02 UTC 2006


yordy wrote:
> Hi
>
> Yesterday I repartitioning my HD, install win xp and
> FC5 in the same HD, first I install winxp and then
> FC5, when finish installing FC5 and restart, grub
> don't run at startup, and always win xp boot. I had
> installed grub with default anaconda options, then, I
> think that it's installed in /dev/hda (MBR). I boot
> with FC5 installation CD 1 and start with linux rescue
> option trying to install grup again, but, when i run
> grup-install it say stage1 not read correctly.
>
> Finally, I can't make grub to run, and I can't start
> FC5.  Why it's happen and how I can fix it.
>
> Partition table
>
> partition 1: win xp installation - primary 15 GB
> partition 2: /boot - primary 100 MB
> partition 3: extended (10 GB NTFS, 3.2 GB /home, 3 GB
> /var, 800 MB swap, 5 GB /)
>
> Greetings
>
>
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In linux rescue (without partitions mounted) try setting the /boot 
partition with the boot flag, using fdisk.
fdisk /dev/hda (type p to check if the boot flag is already set, if not:)
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-Dan




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