Fedora / Windows Boot.

[mooshie]

Christopher Sammet wrote:
> Hi
> If both hard drives were connected during the Linux installation it
> should have asked you if you wanted to use Grub as the boot loader. 
> If you selected this option Grub will ask which hard drive has the
> default OS.  If Windows is on the primary hard drive it will show up
> hda 0 if not it is hda 1, Fedora should be on the other.  When you get
> here all you have to do is put a check mark next to the desired
> default OS.  I have selected grub because that is what I use on my
> dual boot machine and it works fine with both Windows XP Pro sp2 and
> Fedora Core 4. There are others boot loaders floating around that work
> just as well if you don't want to use grub.
> 
> On 10/12/05, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>>rowens at mdanderson.org wrote:
>>
>>>I just install FC4 on  a system with two Hard drives.  I followed the GUI
>>>interface and it told me installation complete. Reboot.
>>>
>>>It reboots directly to Windows XP. How do I get it to load linux or prompt
>>>me for an OS.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Well, there's not quite enough information properly to help.
>>
>>You could use the technique I use to manage my multi-boot
>>system. I let Windows XP manage the boot for me. When my
>>machine, the XP boot manager comes up, and allows me to
>>select either Linux or a few varieties of XP boot. It
>>defaults to Linux in 30 secs. If Linux gets selected, then
>>GRUB runs, and allows me to select one of several Linux
>>kernels to boot.
>>
>>I know that there are some around here who would argue
>>against this, but I find that the XP boot manager is
>>a very reasonable one. And XP and GRUB don't quite fit
>>each other. Especially on my machine. For that matter,
>>Linux and GRUB don't quite fit, but GRUB has some
>>kludgy little pieces to accomodate Linux, so it works
>>pretty well.
>>
>>I find that the kludgy little pieces in GRUB to fit
>>Windows don't work quite so well for me, so I'm more
>>or less forced to use the XP boot loader this way.
>>But I find it quite adequate.
>>
>>Mike
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> 

My GRUB loads right when I turn my computer on, then I can choose from 
my 3 flavors of Linux or my Windows XP. I just installed Fedora and 
choose GRUB as my boot loader. All works fine on this end of the line. 
Hope you get it working.