Fedora Core 5 + WinXP Pro
luca porcu
thedjpig at gmail.com
Mon May 15 15:07:18 UTC 2006
2006/4/16, Adam Tunbridge <iamadam at bulldoghome.com>:
>
> I get the feeling dual-boot systems are a /dirty /subject round here but
> needs must I'm afraid. Right, I'm having issues loading Fedora Core 5. I
> have 2 hard-drives:
>
> 80GB (we'll call this /D1/)
> 100GB (we'll call this /D2/)
>
> I started by installing WinXP on /D1/. Then I installed Fedora on /D2,
> /using GRUB on the MBR of /D1/. This didn't work. My system just booted
> straight into XP. Then I tried the same but installed GRUB on the first
> sector of /D2/. Same result. Now I've just tried the same install but
> *without *installing GRUB and tried Acronis OS Selector instead. This
> wouldn't event detect the existence of Fedora. I'm a complete noob when
> it comes to Linux (Well, partial noob really. Read a few books) so
> please explain what I'm doing wrong in moderately simple terms.
hello,
try this to solve your problems with grub:
cco la soluzione a questo problema!
boot in rescue mode with dvd/cd for install:
linux rescue
on the shell:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
after
if you have similar situation:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hde: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 7296 58605088+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/hdf: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdf1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdf2 14 14596 117137947+ 8e Linux LVM
# cat /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/hde
# cat /etc/mtab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 rw,defaults 0 0
/dev/hdf1 /boot ext3 rw,defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,defaults 0 0
/dev/sysfs /sys sysfs rw,defaults 0 0
edit
/boot/grub/device.map
and add:
(hd1) /dev/hdf
now reinstall grub:
# grub-install /dev/hde
luca.
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