Making Fedora Boot CD

[Mark Haney]

Coy Scott wrote:
> I partitioned the hard drive of my Gateway GT5224 PC so that I could 
> make it a dual boot system.  It came with Windows XP.  I installed 
> Fedora Core 6.  However, I can't boot Fedora.
> 
> Whenever I installed GRUB on the master boot record (MBR) and then 
> rebooted windows XP, the software detected "file corruption" and forced 
> a reinstallation of Windows XP.  This overwrote the MBR, removing GRUB 
> and making it impossible to boot Fedora.
> 
> So, I tried the only other installation option.  I had the installation 
> program install GRUB on first sector of the boot partition (/dev/sda6).  
> However, when I reboot the computer, GRUB never gets to run because 
> Windows XP is using the MBR.
> 
> I've looked through a couple of books, and the GRUB documentation on the 
> "gnu.org" website.  But, I haven't found a solution.
> 
> Can someone point me to documentation of how to make a boot CD?  Can I 
> put GRUB on a bootable CD that will allow me to boot Windows XP or 
> Fedora Core 6?  Do you have another suggestion?  Thank you.
> 
You can re-install grub using the rescue CD which should fix your 
problem unless you want to do that another way.
You can build a boot cd using the rescue cd and the mkbootdisk script 
which will build an iso file that you can burn.



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