preparing for F10

Timothy Murphy tim at maths.tcd.ie
Sun Oct 26 17:05:21 UTC 2008


Fred Silsbee wrote:

> when I installed F9, I encountered an equivocal question in the grub
> section ......something like this:
> 
> what HD do you want to boot to?
> 
> I must have given the wrong answer but did command line grub commands and
> straightened it out.
> 
> I have
> 
> (1) sda1 with XP Prof and the MBR where the grub thing resides...right?
> 
> on boot, the first drive encountered is sda1
> 
> (2) sdb1 with F9
> 
> I am guessing the right answer would be (2)

It's not clear to me what the question is.
Grub should be installed on the disk the BIOS looks at first,
which is usually sda.
(You can change this in the BIOS.)
Grub can access Fedora on sdb1 when it is installed on the sda MBR,
if that is the question.





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