grub/core6

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Nov 30 22:22:23 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:01 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
> I just installed fedora Core6 and now I can't boot up the system.
> 
> I have a dual boot system here; winXP on a drive by itself (hda) and fedora 
> core6 on its own drive (hdb).
> 
> After things were installed with grub as my default boot manager I can't 
> get into fedora 6 at all. A boot takes me right into windows with no
> stopping at the grub process.
> 
> To try and get this working I have tried doing a 'reinstall' of core6 but 
> even though the process said it was installing grub all over again, it 
> never appeared.
> And than I thought of using the rescue disk and trying to get things going 
> that way. And that failed. But here is what I had done..
> 
> Fedora Core6 rescue disk - boot.
> ran chroot /mnt/sysimage
> Than I ran grub-install /dev/hda, and that gave me "/dev/hda does not have 
> any corresponding BIOS drive.
> So I ran grub-install again but used /dev/hdb  with the same result 
> .  /dev/hdb is my core6 installation drive.
> I even ran grub-install /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hda1  all with the same result: 
> "/dev/hdX does not have any corresponding BIOS drive."
What does you BIOS say about the drives?
> 
> That leaves me at a standstill with no way to get into my Fedora 
> installation.  Is there  a  way using the resuce disk to boot into core6?
> I don't know there is a way, but if there is that would be nice to know.
> 
> The bottom line is -  what is wrong with the grub installation process that 
> it won't write anything to anything to get the system to dual boot.??
> 
> 
> 
> ---
> Ted Gervais,
> Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, Canada
> 
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