No Grub menu on dual boot!
duralisis
duralisis at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 15 15:46:46 UTC 2005
duralisis wrote:
> I'm trying to dual boot XP and FC4T2 on separate drives. XP is on
> hda, Fedora on hdb. I've had a working FC3 install for a while and
> instead of using grub, I used NTLDR by copying the boot sector of the
> second drive and adding a boot.ini entry.
>
> But, I tried doing a clean install of Test 2 (wiped entire second
> drive clean), only this time I told it to install the boot loader into
> the MBR of hda. I thought this would make Grub my default boot menu
> now. But it didn't. Instead it still boots straight into XP after a
> brief flicker of a black screen (no prompt, no flash of Grub in the
> corner or anything).
>
> I added an entry back into boot.ini to see if that would boot my new
> install (like before), and it doesn't work. I get a "cannot load from
> harddisk, insert system disk" bootpart error. Again, this was all
> working just fine in FC3. I've only tried to use Grub in the MBR this
> time like most people would.
>
> Other than the default install options and automatic partitioning of
> hdb, I only chose Other (Windows XP) to be the default boot target
> during install.
>
> Why can't FC4 boot? Where did Grub go? Why is NTLDR still there?
>
I've found a solution for my problem and have a completely documented
thread at FedoraForums. Take a look if you're having the same
difficulty after install.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=51741
For reference, I needed to boot into rescue mode by booting the first cd
and running
"linux rescue"
then changing the system root
"chroot /mnt/sysimage"
finally running grub and setting up my 2nd drive...
"grub"
grub> root (hd1,0) (since fedora /boot is on /hdb)
grub> setup (hd0) (still the mbr of the first hd)
grub> quit
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