Grub, Dual Boot

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Thu Oct 1 21:05:36 UTC 2009


On 10/01/2009 04:41 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
> 2009/10/1 Jim<mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>:
>    
>> Dual booting with WinXP and Fedora 11.
>>
>> Hard Drive 0    sda1  WindowsXP
>>
>> Hard Drive 1    sdb1  /boot   Fedora 11
>>
>> Isn't the command  grub-install  /dev/sda  what you do to write grub to boot
>> from
>> sda ?
>>
>> I ran that command from fedora 11 but it still wants to boot from WindowsXP
>> .
>>      
> you need to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. the line `default=___' should
> say `default=1' if F11 is the 2nd entry
> on your list.
>
>    
Here is my menu.lst file.
I do have a separate /boot partition  sdb1
WindowXP is on sda
Fedora 11 is on sdb
With this menu.lst, I did a,   grub-install  --recheck /dev/sda , and 
when I do a reboot I get a Error 21.

Thanks for your responds.
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