Dual Boot and FC 5

Russell Golden dragonite.wylie at verizon.net
Sat Apr 8 02:11:38 UTC 2006


Roger Grosswiler wrote:

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>>>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Russell Golden
>>>Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 8:35 PM
>>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>>>Subject: Re: Dual Boot and FC 5
>>>is there a removable disk somewhere that isn't bootable? if there is,
>>>remove it, then try again.
>>>you'd think they could write something that could skip that part if
>>>something is there that's not bootable lol
>>>      
>>>
>>There is no disk other than the originally partitioned hard drive with a
>>formerly operative Windows XP system on it.
>>
>>The situation was a working dual-boot (using gub on the master boot
>>sector)
>>FC 4 and Windows XP.
>>
>>After the upgrade, the Windows XP side will no longer boot.  I modified no
>>partitions during the upgrade.
>>
>>-Tom
>>
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>Tom,
>
>is eventually the partition-scheme no longer the same, so grub doesn't
>find the appropriate entry?
>
>check with fdisk the partition-table and compare, how it is with the entry
>in grub.
>
>Roger
>
>  
>
I was talking about any floppies, flash drives, etc that might be there. 
but then again, it'd bug you about it whether xp worked or not. *shrug* 
nvm me, brain not working lol




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