Dual boot problem -

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at att.net
Sat Jul 16 21:17:37 UTC 2005




Tamer Higazi wrote:

>That does not work... this is the totally WRONG way. You have to install
>grub on the master boot record of /dev/hda!
>
>That can be done With the "grub" tool, that comes with the Grand Unified
>Boot Loader, even if it is set up on the wrong harddisks MBR. 
>
>Windows will not start! if you change the harddisk start procedure in
>the BIOS. 
>
>What linux version are you using?! Do you have a CD from where you can
>start Linux to access and to "chown" the bash of the other harddisk?!
>
>
>Tamer
>
>Am Freitag, den 15.07.2005, 23:20 +0200 schrieb Benjamin Duehring:
>  
>
>>On Friday 15 July 2005 22:01, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>I've installed, reinstalled, repartitioned and reinstalled again but no 
>>>matter what this computer boots only to Widows 2000 and never displays 
>>>Grub for FC-4.  Windows is on /dev/hda [40gig] and FC-4 on /dev/hdb 
>>>[10gig].  The user doesn't really need/want Linux but it will be a 
>>>convenience for me if I can make it work.
>>>
>>>Any suggestions appreciated.
>>>
>>>Thank you.
>>>
>>>Bob G
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Maybe grub has been installed on the master boot record of the second hard disk (hdb). But in the bios the first disk (hda) is selected to boot from.
>>If that's the case, modify your bios and change to boot order (your second hdd at first) or install grub on hda.
>>
>>__________________________
>>Benjamin Duehring, FORWISS|
>>Universitaet Passau       | Priv. e-mail : duehring at forwiss.uni-passau.de
>>D-94030 Passau            | WWW          : http://www.lyxx.de/card
>>    
>>
Ok, I finally got things working after reading through the information at:
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html.

I had to repartition both drives with fdisk, the best and simplest way 
to get things done,
and now FC-4 seems to be able to cohabit with Windows 2000 without a 
problem.  I've rebooted
several times and things run smoothly so far.

Thanks for the help.

BobG




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