Grub Issue
Tod Merley
todbot88 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 03:26:54 UTC 2008
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Joseph L. Casale
<JCasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:
> I am trying what used to be a typical scenario for me, I need to dual
> boot between XP and Fedora and I had XP installed on the first 100gig
> partition of my sata drive, then tried to install the F10 Beta with /boot
> in sda2 and / inside lvm on sda3. Grub never appears though, so I booted
> into the rescue mode and tried the usual, entering grub, specifying root (hd0,1)
> then setup (hd0) which still never worked, so I then tried grub-install /dev/sda
> which still didn't work?
>
> Any ideas why grub doesn't even appear? I recall the /boot needing to be at the beginning
> of the disc an old legacy requirement an no longer an issue (I think this is how I setup
> my systems before anyway?).
>
> Thanks!
> jlc
>
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Hi Joseph L. Casale!
It is just a guess but I think your grub boot MBR is at the beginning
of sda2. Regardless you need to know what is in the MBR so I refer
you to:
http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/GRUB.htm (and do a search
for "dd if". The whole article is rather interesting I think)
Probably the method followed in this thread:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/45911-dual-booting-windows-xp-fedora-solution.html
is more in line with what you wanted.
Have a lot of fun!!
Tod
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