On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 10:53 -0500, bobgoodwin wrote:
Tim wrote:
>On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 08:01 -0500, bobgoodwin wrote:
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>>I have installed Windows 2000/NTFS on /dev/hda and FC4 on /dev/hdb but
>>Grub is never displayed, Windows is booted immediately. I've tried
>>installing grub in boot and mbr as offered in the installation routine
>>with the same result.
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>You've put GRUB onto which drive?
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>Some people dual-booting with Windows find it easier to keep Linux
>completely on its own drive (bootloaders, and all), and put an entry
>into the NT loader file so that the Windows boot menu gives you the
>options of which drive to boot from.
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I don't recall seeing an option to do that with Windows 2000 but it may
not be a menu item?
There is an option offered right at the install start that I didn't
comprehend ...
This is not an option within Windows. It is easy to do, but requires
some manual config.
I solved the problem by doing 'Linux rescue' from disk #1 and
then
'grub-install /dev/hda'
to fix the problem. However I still don't understand why the
Install/Upgrade routines that
I ran several times did not accomplish this? I spent several days
messing with this problem and
the bad hard drive. A learning exercise perhaps?
Maybe partly doe to the bad drive?
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>>I have a CDROM with some utilities on it that permit me to boot the
>>computer with some basic Linux functions; I see that fdisk shows both
>>drives toggled to "boot."
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>That shouldn't be a problem (assuming you mean they've got an
"active"
>partition that *could* be booted).
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So I will accept that as a normal indication.
Thanks.
Bob Goodwin