Fedora Core 5 Installation
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Aug 10 14:53:50 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 15:57 +0200, Mitja Mihelic wrote:
> I think the first problem appeared when you chose not to let Grub handle
> the booting.
> It would have been much easyer to let Grub to be written to the MBR.
>
> I would do the following:
> - boot into rescue mode from CD/DVD
> - mount the root partition of yout linux installation
> - chroot into the mounted system
> - add the following line to /boot/grub/grub.conf :
> title Windows
> rootnoverify (hd0,1)
> chainloader +1
> - do not forget to change "hd0" if your windows installation is not on
> the frist partition
> - run "grub-install /dev/hda", replacing hda with another device if needed
> -done
>
> Or you could try running the normal installation again and choosing the
> "repair" option and let it install Grub to the MBR.
>
> Mitja
>
I agree with the above but want to point out that grub can be made to
boot windows as the default OS. Look at the default option in grub.conf
>
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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