Installation of FC6 does not boot

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 23:26:18 UTC 2007


On 2/13/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> >> I have just installed FC6 on a second hard disk (hdb); the first hard
> >> disk (hda) contains Windows XP. Everything went fine during the
> >> installation. However, the computer boots always on Windows XP.  Any
> >> ideas?
> >
> > That is solved: I have exchanged the two hard disks, physically.
> >
> It looks like Grub was installed on the wrong drive. Did you only
> have one drive installed when you did the install? You could
> probably have booted FC6 by telling the BIOS to boot from the second
> drive, if your BIOS has that option.
>
> You may find
> http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
> interesting if you want to use the Windows boot loader to boot FC6.

Thanks, Mikkel. The problem is already solved.

Paul




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